kicksy-wicksy
English
Alternative forms
- kicksy-winsey
Etymology
From kick and wince.
Adjective
kicksy-wicksy (comparative more kicksy-wicksy, superlative most kicksy-wicksy)
- Fantastic; restless; flickering; uncertain.
- kicksy-wicksy flames
- 1822, Robert Nares, A Glossary, page 269:
- He wears his honour in a box unseen,
That hugs his kicksy-wicksy [wife] here at home.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for kicksy-wicksy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)