wich

• Homophones: which, witch

wich (plural wiches)

1. Alternative form of wick (“bundle of thread”).

wich (plural wiches)

1. Alternative form of wych (“brine spring or well”).
2. A wich town, particularly one of several former salt mining towns in Cheshire with a name ending -wich.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Edward Hughes, Studies in Administration and Finance 1558-1825, Manchester University Press, page 21:

     Droitwich was then clearly more important than any of the Cheshire wiches; indeed the two most northerly of them were reported in 1086 to be "utterly waste", while Nantwich farm was worth only £10 a year.

wich

1. Misspelling of which.

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1. Misspelling of which.

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1. Misspelling of which.

• wich town

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wich

1. first/third-person singular preterite of weichen

• IPA^(key): /wìc/

wich (plural wiye)

1. head

• which, whilke

From Middle English which, whilk, from Old English hwelċ.

• IPA^(key): /wɪt͡ʃ/, /hwɪt͡ʃ/, /hwɪlk/

wich

1. which

wich

1. which
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Wich ad wough bethther kwingokee or baagchoosee vursth?

     Whether had we better churn or bake first?

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78

• IPA^(key): /wit͡ʃ/

wich (plural wichob)

1. eye