wicked.html - In young people's slang: excellent, great, wonderful. Etymology: A reversal of meaning: compare bad. In this case, there might first have been a catch-phrase or advertising slogan so good it's wicked which was later abbreviated to wicked alone; however, it is not unusual for an adjective to be used as an 'in' word in the opposite sense to its usual one among a limited group of people, and then pass into more general slang. History and Usage: In US slang, wicked has been used in the sense 'formidable' since the end of the nineteenth century (compare mean in British English). A famous example occurs in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise (1920), when Sloane calls for music and announces Phoebe and I are going to shake a wicked calf. It was only in the early eighties, though , that wicked was taken up by young people (including, and perhaps especially, young children) as a fashionable term of approval, often preceded by the adverb well. This usage , unlike the earlier slang use, spread outside US English to enjoy a vogue among British and Australian youngsters as well. A children's weekend television programme in the UK took up the theme in its title, It's Wicked! I've been to loads of Acid House parties. We have a wicked time but never, not never, do we take any drugs. Time Out 18 Oct. 1989, p.
9 This boy looked in wonder at the polyurethane and leather marvel and offered it the coolest of street compliments. 'Well wicked,' he breathed. Daily Telegraph 9 June 1990, p. 13

wicked.html - adj.
(wickeder, wickedest)
1 sinful, iniquitous, given to or involving immorality.
2 spiteful, ill-tempered; intending or intended to give pain.
3 playfully malicious.
4 colloq. foul; very bad; formidable (wicked weather; a wicked cough).
5 sl. excellent, remarkable.

Wicked Bible an edition of 1631, with the misprinted commandment 'thou shalt commit adultery'.

wickedly adv. wickedness n. [ME f. obs. wick (perh. adj. use of OE wicca wizard) + -ED(1) as in wretched]

wicked.html - In young people's slang: excellent, great, wonderful. Etymology: A reversal of meaning: compare bad. In this case, there might first have been a catch-phrase or advertising slogan so good it's wicked which was later abbreviated to wicked alone; however, it is not unusual for an adjective to be used as an 'in' word in the opposite sense to its usual one among a limited group of people, and then pass into more general slang. History and Usage: In US slang, wicked has been used in the sense 'formidable' since the end of the nineteenth century (compare mean in British English). A famous example occurs in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise (1920), when Sloane calls for music and announces Phoebe and I are going to shake a wicked calf. It was only in the early eighties, though , that wicked was taken up by young people (including, and perhaps especially, young children) as a fashionable term of approval, often preceded by the adverb well. This usage , unlike the earlier slang use, spread outside US English to enjoy a vogue among British and Australian youngsters as well. A children's weekend television programme in the UK took up the theme in its title, It's Wicked! I've been to loads of Acid House parties. We have a wicked time but never, not never, do we take any drugs. Time Out 18 Oct. 1989, p.
9 This boy looked in wonder at the polyurethane and leather marvel and offered it the coolest of street compliments. 'Well wicked,' he breathed. Daily Telegraph 9 June 1990, p. 13

wicked.html - adj.
(wickeder, wickedest)
1 sinful, iniquitous, given to or involving immorality.
2 spiteful, ill-tempered; intending or intended to give pain.
3 playfully malicious.
4 colloq. foul; very bad; formidable (wicked weather; a wicked cough).
5 sl. excellent, remarkable.

Wicked Bible an edition of 1631, with the misprinted commandment 'thou shalt commit adultery'.

wickedly adv. wickedness n. [ME f. obs. wick (perh. adj. use of OE wicca wizard) + -ED(1) as in wretched]

wicked.html - n.
plaited twigs or osiers etc. as material for chairs, baskets, mats, etc. [ME, f. E.Scand.: cf. Sw. viker willow, rel. to vika bend]

wicked.html - n.
1 wicker.
2 things made of wicker.