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KICKSHAWS

Definitions: KICKSHAWS

KICKSHAWS

Noun

1. A fancy dish; a titbit; a delicacy.

2. Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "KICKSHAWS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)


Specialty Definitions: KICKSHAWS

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Kickshaws Made dishes, odds and ends, formerly written "kickshose." (French, quelque chose.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

KICKSHAWS. French dishes: corruption of quelque chose. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: KICKSHAWS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Food

Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: KICKSHAWS

English words defined with "KICKSHAWS": Kickshawses, Kickshoe. (references)
Specialty definitions using "KICKSHAWS": KICKSHAWS. (references)

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Anagrams: KICKSHAWS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-k-k-s-s-w"

-1 letter: kickshaw.

-2 letters: kishkas, shicksa.

-3 letters: khakis, kishka, schwas, shacks, shiksa, whacks, whisks.

-4 letters: casks, chaws, chias, hacks, haiks, hawks, hicks, kakis, khaki, kicks, sacks, sakis, schwa, shack, shaws, sicks, swash, swish, wacks, whack, whisk, wicks, wisha.

-5 letters: asci, asks, cash, cask, caws, chaw, chia, chis, hack, haik, hawk, haws, hick, hiss, ichs, kaki, khis, kick.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: KICKSHAWS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 49 43 4B 53 48 41 57 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    ..    -.-.    -.-    ...    ....    .-    .--.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01001001 01000011 01001011 01010011 01001000 01000001 01010111 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#83 &#72 &#65 &#87 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0049 0043 004B 0053 0048 0041 0057 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

454337455342355753

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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