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sik noun a taste 19. etymology: origin obscure; only collected by Joseph F G S Lucas and Rev John Baird from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies; Borrow (1874) and Hayward (2003) cite the form sig meaning ‘haste’ note:

Grellmann (1787) collected the form Sik ‘the taste’ from Continental gipsies. Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form Sig adj, and adv., ‘Quick, soon, early just’.