wicky local.
(ˈwɪkɪ)
[? dial. alteration of quicken.]
a. The mountain-ash or rowan-tree: = quicken n.1 1 a. Also wickeyberry tree. b. U.S. The sheep-laurel, Kalmia angustifolia, and an allied species, K. hirsuta.
| 1681 T. Langford Instr. Fruit-trees 118 Graff the Service on the Wickeyberry-tree, or the White-thorn. 1804 A. F. M. Willich Domestic Encycl. I. 53/1 The plant [sc. Andromeda] is there [sc. in the southern states] called ‘wickie’. 1847 Halliwell, Wicky, same as Wicken-tree. 1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 654 Wicky..Louisianian area..Low sandy pine barrens. |