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† kicksey-winsey, n., a., and adv. Obs.
Also kicksie winsie, kicksy wincy, kicksee winsee, pl. kickshiwinshes.
[app. a whimsical formation, suggested by kick and wince; but the recorded senses seem to connect it with kickshaws.]
A. n. A fantastic device; a whim or erratic fancy. (In quot. 1635 app. used interjectionally.)
1599Nashe Lent. Stuffe 74 The lousy riddle..with eight score more galliard cross-points, and kickshiwinshes, of giddy ear-wig brains. 1619J. Taylor (Water P.) title, The Scourge of Basenesse; a Kicksey Winsie or a Lerry come Twang. 1635Brome Sparagus Gard. iii. xi, Wife. [I long to be] here, and there, and here againe; and all at once. Brit. Hey kicksie winsie.
B. adj. Fantastic, whimsical, erratic.
c1650? Cleveland Obseq. J. Prideaux in R. Fletcher Epigr., etc. (1656) 168 Perhaps an Ignis fatuus now and then Starts up in holes, stincks and goes out agen. Such Kicksee winsee flames shew but how dear Thy great Light's resurrection would be here. a1652Brome Covent Gard. i. i. Wks. 1873 II. 17 This kicksy wincy Giddibrain will spoil all. I'le no more Italian tricks.
C. adv. ? Topsy-turvy.
1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Farew. Tower bottles Wks. (1630) iii. 126/2 And (but for me) apparantly 'tis knowne You had beene kicksie winsie ouerthrowne. |