vraic

English

Alternative forms

• vrack, vraick

Etymology

From Auregnais Norman vraic (“seaweed”), from Germanic. Doublet of wrack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɹeɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

Noun

vraic (uncountable)

1. (Channel Islands) Seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 45:

     There was some sort of big pans, I didn't know what they was for; but Jim said once upon a time they was used to boil vraic to make iodine.

Related terms

• vraicqueur
• vraicker

Translations

seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel

• Norman: vraic m (Guernsey), vrai m (Jersey)

Anagrams

• -cavir, Virac, vicar

Norman

Alternative forms

• vrai (Jersey)

Etymology

From a Germanic source; compare English wrack, Dutch wrak, German Wrack, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to drive out”).

Noun

vraic m (uncountable)

1. (Guernsey) seaweed, vraic
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 537:

     Pouit de vraic, pouit de haugard.

     No seaweed, no corn ricks.