English Explanatory Dictionary

veesick

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Norn song or rhyme, a ballad in Shetland or Orkney.

Word forms

veesick veesicks

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Norse vísa (“verse, strophe, stanza”) (perhaps via Norn [Term?]), whence also Danish vise (“song, ballad, ditty”).

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