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▪ I. shicker, a. and n. Austral. and N.Z. colloq. and in Jewish speech.|ˈʃɪkə(r)|
Also shiker, shikker, shikkur.
[ad. Yiddish shiker ad. Heb. šikkôr, f. šākar to be drunk. Perh. infl. by shickery a. and adv.]
A. adj. Drunk, intoxicated.
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. ii. 53 ‘But I'll get drunk on gingerbeer,’ Pesach laughed back. ‘You can't,’ Fanny said... ‘Ha! ha! ha! Can't even get shikkur on it. What a liquor!’ 1898Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. Red Page, Shiker, drunk. 1899A. M. Binstead Houndsditch Day by Day 46 She comes over shikkur an vants to go to shleeb. 1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee v. 60 Hickford said the deceased was ‘shicker’ on the night before his death. 1949Hilltop (N.Z.) I. ii. 20 Sid should have some chance to get shicker as everybody else. 1963‘M. Corrigan’ Why do Women—? xv. 106 She was shikker and she took it into her head to come here. 1970N.Z. Listener 12 Oct. 12/5 After midnight, Jerry got so shicker that he was quarrelling with everyone.
B. n.
1. A drunk.
1906[see on one's ear s.v. ear n.1 1 c]. 1938X. Herbert Capricornia xviii. 234 He's the biggest shikker in Town. Now nick off, you old sponge. 1945A. Kober Parm Me 156 Right away they are coming here, the whole bunch!.. Will be Uncle Henry and Uncle Philip—two foist-cless shikkers! 1949D. M. Davin Roads from Home i. iii. 41 A shicker. Broke too, by the sound of it. 1964S. Bellow Herzog 135 He drank his pay—a shicker. 1970S. Ellin Bind xlvii. 234, I was hunting in the swamps with my shikker friend... I dumped my shikker off at Flagler Street.
2. Liquor; esp in phr. on the shicker. (Only Austral. and N.Z.)
1916C. J. Dennis Moods of Ginger Mick 154 Shicker, intoxicating liquor. 1918N.Z.E.F. Chron. 27 Feb. 33/1 He saved his strength for shicker. 1928A. Wright Good Recovery 85 ‘Yes, I've been on the shikker,’ he answered huskily. 1945R. Rene Mo's Memoirs 49 One night the magician had been on the shicker, and with a fine disregard for life and limb he let the lion out. 1958H. D. Williamson Sunlit Plain 58 He was on the shicker when I was there last week.
▪ II. shicker, v. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.|ˈʃɪkə(r)|
[f. as prec.]
intr. To take alcoholic drink, to get drunk.
a1922H. Lawson Benno & his Old 'Uns in Prose (1964) III. 230 Her Old 'Un ‘shickered’ till he got ‘mucked’ every pay day. 1951Cusack & James Come in Spinner 33 He'd gamble his shirt off on any damn thing that's got a leg to run on, but he doesn't shicker. |