Other forms: ticks
A tick is a small creature that fastens on and drinks blood. A tick bite, remove the tick, check for ticks.
It must be pulled straight out with fine tweezers close to the skin — twisting or burning it makes it worse — and the risk is what it carries rather than the bite itself. A spreading circular rash afterwards needs a doctor. The same word means a mark, a moment and a clock's sound, all separately.
1nountickA small creature that fastens on and drinks blood.
“After walking through the long grass, check your dog for ticks.”
2nounmarkA mark showing something is correct.
“Put a tick in the box if you'd like to receive our newsletter.”
tick is a parasite, or a mark.
Old English ticia names the parasite. The tick meaning a mark or a sound is a separate imitative word.
Proto-West Germanic
*tīkō
Old English
ticia — parasitic animal, tick
Middle English
tyke
English, today
tick
From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-West Germanic tīkō, compare Dutch teek, {{cog|de|
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA