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kicksy-wicksy

kicksy-wicksy adjective: restless, fidgety.

Adjective

kicksy-wicksy (comparative more kicksy-wicksy, superlative most kicksy-wicksy)

  1. (archaic) Restless, fidgety.
    • This kicksy wincy Giddibrain will spoil all. I’le no more Italian tricks.c. 1632 (written), Richard Brome, “The Covent-Garden Weeded”, in Five nevv Playes […], published 1659, page 17
    • True, she had her “kicksy-wicksy” days, as Sarell has said: days when it was “clear torment for her to lay still and keep herself out o’ things that she knew she could straighten out if she was only round amongst ’em”; […]1887, A. D. T. Whitney, Odd, or Even?, 14th edition, page 72

Forms of kicksy-wicksy

comparativemore kicksy-wicksy
superlativemost kicksy-wicksy
alternative formkicksy-winsey

Origin of kicksy-wicksy

From kick + -sy and either wince or reduplication.

Questions about kicksy-wicksy

What does kicksy-wicksy mean?
Kicksy-wicksy means restless, fidgety.
What part of speech is kicksy-wicksy?
Kicksy-wicksy is an adjective.

Words near kicksy-wicksy in the dictionary

  1. kicksteps
  2. kickster
  3. kicksters
  4. kickstool
  5. kickstools
  6. kicksy-wicksy
  7. kickt
  8. kicktail
  9. kicktails
  10. kickup
  11. kickups

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