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....
- Different tasty kickshaws baked in a puff pastry.
- Tonolo's put it in little choux buns, puff-pastry kickshaws, tiny tartlets, and God knows what else.
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....
- But Musgrave, in his sturdy, common-sense way, only laughed at her seriousness over such kickshaws.
Origin
Late 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
- labor spy
- labor-starved
- labor time
- labor yard
- labour
- labour bank
- labour bill
- labour book
- labour brigade
- labour bureau
- labour camp
- labour candidate
- labour class
- labour coach
- labour colony
- labour content
- labour cost
- Labour Day
- Labour Day Weekend
- laboured
- labourer
- labourer in trust
- labouress
- labour exchange
- labour force