| 释义 |
skeezicks U.S. slang.|ˈskiːzɪks|
Also skeesicks, -zacks, -zecks.
[? Fanciful.]
A good-for-nothing, a rascal, a rogue. (Now usu. playfully of children.)
1850Frontier Guardian (Kanesville, Iowa) 2 Oct. 3/5 Though Kister that skeezecks with Hall at his back, Should come again thieving [etc.]. 1869B. Harte in Overland Monthly June 572/1 Thar aint nobody but him within ten mile of the shanty, and that 'ar d―d old skeesicks knows it. 1875J. G. Holland Sevenoaks iii. 40 If there's anything awful bad..in [the word] Skeezacks—I should say that Tom Buffum was an old Skeezacks. 1908Everybody's Dec. 796/2 This is a poor skeezicks that's got nothing to eat but an onion. 1939P. A. Rollins Gone Haywire v. 117 Eb Hawkins, that ol' skeesicks you met on th' railway train an' liked, is th' feller that's acted as th' owners' agent in sellin' rights to your uncle. |