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shickery

shickery adjective: shabby; bad.

Adjective

shickery (comparative more shickery, superlative most shickery)

  1. (colloquial, obsolete) Shabby; bad.
    • The platform itself was a shickery arrangement of trestles and shutters, and was kept by a publican for the use of travelling companies.1876, The Australian Journal, page 243

Forms of shickery

comparativemore shickery
superlativemost shickery

Origin of shickery

Unknown. A connection with later shicker is unlikely, because the Yiddish and Hebrew terms only have senses relating to alcohol.

Questions about shickery

What does shickery mean?
Shickery means shabby; bad.
What part of speech is shickery?
Shickery is an adjective.

Words near shickery in the dictionary

  1. shickaree
  2. shickarees
  3. shicker
  4. shickered
  5. shickers
  6. shickery
  7. Shicks
  8. shicksa
  9. shicksas
  10. shickster
  11. shicksters

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