"sice" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsaɪs/ Forms: sices [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪs Head templates: {{en-noun}} sice (plural sices)
  1. Alternative spelling of sais Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: sais
    Sense id: en-sice-en-noun-Qswd9bVW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 36 18 Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 12 11 4 2 27 30 9 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈsaɪs/ Forms: sices [plural], sise [alternative], size [alternative]
Rhymes: -aɪs Etymology: From Middle English sice or sis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French sis, sies. Doublet of six. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|sice}} Middle English sice, {{der|en|xno|-}} Anglo-Norman, {{der|en|fro|sis}} Old French sis, {{doublet|en|six}} Doublet of six Head templates: {{en-noun}} sice (plural sices)
  1. (dice games, obsolete) The number six in a game of dice. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Dice games, Six Coordinate_terms: ace, deuce, trey, cater, cinque Translations (number six in a game of dice): шестица (alt: на зар) [feminine] (Bulgarian), sena [feminine] (Catalan), syz [masculine] (Polish), zys [masculine] (Polish), sena [feminine] (Portuguese), sena [feminine] (Spanish)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈsaɪs/ Forms: sices [present, singular, third-person], sicing [participle, present], siced [participle, past], siced [past]
Rhymes: -aɪs Head templates: {{en-verb}} sice (third-person singular simple present sices, present participle sicing, simple past and past participle siced)
  1. (District of Columbia, slang) To excite. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-sice-en-verb-gDRsOFit Categories (other): DC English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "sice me up … and now you're feeling so excited … I'm siced"
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          "text": "\"I got Jasmine's Range out the shop. It's just like new. I'ma let you hold it, okay?\" A smile big as Texas spread across my face. I was siced like shit!",
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          "text": "[I'm] siced to not be at work and about to head out on a road trip. […] […] siced: Siced is one of my all-time favorite words. It means excited or happy about, or that you like something. You can be siced for something, you can sice something, or, you can just be siced as a general matter. I'm pretty sure siced is a local word. […] I've also seen it spelled syced, cised, ciced, sysed, and cysed.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (32c88e6 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.