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caique

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
19
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/kɑːˈiːk/
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/kɑːˈiːk/ · /kaɪˈiːk/

Definition of caique

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
    “Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.”
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noun

  1. A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
    “Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.”
  2. Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.

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Etymology

Borrowed from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (kayık), from Proto-Turkic *kiayguk (“boat, oar”). Cognate with modern Turkish kayık.

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