English Explanatory Dictionary

get on someone's wick

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To annoy or upset someone, especially by repeated disagreeable actions.

Word forms

get on someone's wick gets on someone's wick getting on someone's wick got on someone's wick

Etymology

Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang states that wick is a shortening for Hampton Wick as rhyming slang for prick, i.e. penis.

Synonyms

get on someone's nerves aggravate annoy nettle rankle ruffle sting antagonize bother disgruntle botherate bug get grate burn up bedevil cheese off devil exasperate frustrate get up grotch hack off hassle irk irritate jazz molest mommick nark nerve pee off peeve persecute pique piss off provoke rile rile up roil storm test someone's patience tick off trouble try one's patience vex wind up Idioms: boil someone's piss chap someone's hide get on someone's tits get on someone's wick get someone's back up get someone's dander up get someone's goat get someone's Irish up get someone's nanny get someone's nanny-goat get under one's goat get under someone's skin
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