单词 | kickshaw |
释义 | kickshaw/ˈkɪkʃɔː![]() noun 1 archaic A fancy but insubstantial cooked dish, especially one of foreign origin.Puddings, ‘kickshaws’, or ‘made dishes’, and salads of cooked, pickled, or raw vegetables, herbs, and flowers....
1.1chiefly North American An elegant but insubstantial trinket.He pursues the miching-malicho lyric and the possibilities it offers, but always with an acute sense of how to true the comic impulse that vitalizes his sublime as well as kickshaw modes....
OriginLate 16th century: from French quelque chose 'something'. The French spelling was common in the 17th century; the present form results from interpretation of quelque chose as plural. Rhymes |
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