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hickery-pickery

hickery-pickery is the alternative form of hiera picra.

Meaning of hiera picra

Noun

hiera picra (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A warming cathartic medicine made from aloes and canella.
    • His hiera picra formula called for aloes, spices and herbs; the compound was made into an electuary.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 77

Questions about hickery-pickery

What is hickery-pickery the alternative form of?
Hickery-pickery is the alternative form of hiera picra.

Words near hickery-pickery in the dictionary

  1. Hickenbottoms
  2. hickeries
  3. Hickerson
  4. Hickersons
  5. hickery
  6. hickery-pickery
  7. Hickes
  8. hickest
  9. hicket
  10. hickets
  11. hickey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hickery-pickery (page history and authors); hiera picra (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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