vetch (Vicia gen. et spp.) · something worthless, a bugger · state of failure, wreckedness, only in the following constructions
çekim: çoğul Wicken · tamlayan Wicken
köken: From Middle High German wicke, from Old High German wicka, from Proto-West Germanic *wikkjā. The sense of a worthless item derives from the opposition to cereal plants; now “Wicke” is rather praised as an ornamental plant. The idiom “in die Wicken gehen”, not to be tracked further than the nineteenth century and still rather rare, is less common with this noun than with Binsen and derives either…
aile: wickenartig
Der Motor ist in die Wicken gegangen.
Der Regisseur hat den Film in die Wicken geritten.
köken: Inherited from Old Polish wyka, wika, attested from the 15th century, from Middle High German wicke, from Old High German wicka, from Latin vicia.