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kiek

Pronunciation: /kik/

“kiek” is a Dutch word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a snapshot, photograph; originally specifically used for a group scene and/or shot by an amateur photographer
  2. a chick, young of a domestic fowl or other bird
  3. a domestic chicken or other fowl
  4. a dumb 'bird', (notably) female airhead
  5. Brassica nigra (black mustard)
  6. Rhamphospermum arvense (syns. Sinapis arvensis, etc.; charlock)
  7. Raphanus raphanistrum (wild radish)
  8. Thlaspi arvense (field pennycress)
  9. Alliaria petiolata (syn. Alliaria officinalis; garlic mustard)
  10. something that is amusing, fun, or giving a nice sensation

Etymology

From the name of Dutch photographer Israël Kiek. Probably reinforced by analogy with kijk (“a look”) and kieken, a dialectal synonym for kijken (“to look”).

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