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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

KICKSY-WICKSY; KICKY-WISKY

KICKSY-WICKSY; KICKY-WISKY Kick "sy-wick `sy, Kick "y-wisk `y, n.

 

Defn: That which is restless and uneasy.

 

Note: Kicky-wicky, or, in some editions, Kicksy-wicksy, is applied contemptuously to a wife by Shakespeare, in "All's Well that Ends Well, " ii. 3, 297.

 

KICKSY-WICKSY

KICKSY-WICKSY Kick "sy-wick `sy, a.

 

Defn: Fantastic; restless; as, kicksy-wicksy flames. Nares.