anticking

Verb

antic (third-person singular simple present antics, present participle anticking, simple past and past participle anticked)

1. (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
   • Jerry no more than cocked a contemptuous quizzical eye at the mainsail anticking above him. He knew already the empty windiness of its threats, but he was careful of the mainsheet blocks, and walked around the traveller instead of over it.1917 April, Jack London, chapter IV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 54
2. (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
   • Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
3. (rare, transitive) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
   • She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 70

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