Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A sudden pull. · Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope. · A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer. · A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
To pull with a jerk. · To attach, tie or fasten. · To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched. · Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
Probably from Middle English hicchen, hytchen, icchen (“to move; to move as with a jerk”), of obscure origin. Lacks cognates in other languages. Compare itch, hike.
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- Inherited-form mentionhicchenenm
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