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Reference
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Brewer’s Dictionary
> Kicksy-wicksy.
Kickshaws.
Kid (
A
).
CONTENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer
1810–1897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Kicksy-wicksy.
A horse that kicks and winces in impatience; figuratively, a wife (
grey mare
). Taylor, the water poet, calls it
kicksie-winsie,
but Shakespeare spells it
kicky-wicky.
1
“He wears his honour in a box unseen
That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,
Spending his manly marrow in her arms,
Which should sustain the bound and high curvet
Of Mars’s fiery steed.”
All’s Well that Ends Well,
ii. 3 (Globe ed.).
Kickshaws.
Kid (
A
).
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