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kickshaw, -shaws|ˈkɪkʃɔː, -ʃɔːz|
Forms: α. sing. 6–8 (in 7 pl.) quelque chose; pl. 7 quel- que(s)-, quelk-, kick-choses, quelque choices; kicke-shoses, -chawses. β. pl. 6–7 kick-shawes, 7 kick-shose, -shoes, -showes, -shores, -shews, -chawes, (quick-chaws); kek-, kecshose, ke(c)k-, queck-shoes; 7– kickshaws. γ. sing. 7– kickshaw.
[ad. F. quelque chose something.
The original Fr. spelling was frequent in the 17th c., but the commonest forms follow the pronunciation que'que chose formerly regarded as elegant, and still current in colloquial French. The word was sometimes correctly taken as sing., with plural -choses, etc.; more commonly it was treated as a pl., and a sing. kickshaw afterwards formed from it.]
1. A fancy dish in cookery. (Chiefly with contemptuous force: A ‘something’ French, not one of the known ‘substantial English’ dishes.)
α1598Florio, Carabozzada, a kinde of daintie dish or quelque chose vsed in Italie. 1611Cotgr., Fricandeaux, short, skinlesse, and daintie puddings, or Quelkchoses. 1612Dekker If it be not good Wks. 1873 II. 285 Ile teach..to make caudels, Iellies..cowslip sallads, and kickchoses. 1642Featly Dippers Dipt (1645) 199, I made bold to set on the board kicke-shoses, and variety of strange fruits. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 366 Over curious Cookery, making..quelque-choses of unsavoury..Meat. 1655E. Terry Voy. E. Ind. (1665) 408 With these quelque chose, was that entertainment made up. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 4 Longing after fine quelque choices of new and artificial composition.
β1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, vi. i. 29 (Qo. 1) A ioynt of Mutton, and any pretty little tinie Kick-shawes. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. ii. (1651) 319 That scarce at first had course bread..must now feed on kickshoes and made dishes. 1709Addison Tatler No. 148 ⁋10 That substantial English Dish banished in so ignominious a Manner, to make Way for French Kickshaws. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 195 The kickshaws were half raw, the solids were mere rags. 1874Helps Soc. Press. xiii. 187 You have a nice cut of wholesome leg of mutton..none of your made dishes and kickshaws.
γ1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland xviii. 92 Another kick⁓shaw that pleaseth them very much they make of Angelica. 1714Macky Journ. Eng. (1724) II. xvi. 227 They go to a Cooks Shop, and ask for a Kickshaw. 1840Thackeray George Cruikshank (1869) 303 The Chef is instructing a kitchen-maid how to compound some rascally French kickshaw.
fig.1653Gauden Hierasp. 63 Dished up to the mode of Familistick hashes, and Socinians..Keckshoes. 1659― Tears Ch. ii. xix. 204 Enough..of these late Hashshes, Olives, and Queckshoes of Religion.
2. Something dainty or elegant, but unsubstantial or comparatively valueless; a toy, trifle, gew-gaw. In 1654 applied to a person.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. iii. 122 A. I delight in Maskes and Reuels sometimes altogether. T. Art thou good at these kicke-chawses Knight? a1626Fletcher Nice Valour iv. i, At my wives' instigation..(As women loue these Heralds' kickshawes naturally) I bought 'em. 1654in Ludlow's Mem. (1894) I. 382 You..may think he had power, but they made a very kickshaw of him in London. 1722–3Swift in Pope's Wks. (1871) VII. 36 Has he [Pope] some quelque chose of his own upon the anvil? 1823Scott in Four C. Eng. Lett. 403 He may be desirous of offering some test of his gratitude in the shape of a reprint, or such like kickshaw. 1886E. L. Bynner A. Surriage xxxi. 378 Go buy some kickshaws to send home to your mother.
3. A fantastical, frivolous person. Obs. exc. dial.
1644Milton Educ. ad fin., The Monsieurs of Paris to take our hopeful Youth..and send them over back again transformed into Mimicks, Apes, and Kickshoes. a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 708 Xuthus a musitian, Metrodorus a dancer, and all the Asian comicks and kickshaws crept into the Court. 1828Craven Dial., Kickshaw, a proud, vain person.
4. attrib. as adj. Frivolous, trifling.
1658Sir T. T. de Mayerne Archimag. Anglo-Gall. Pref. 4 The Kick-shaw Language, which these Chamæleon-Times love to feede on. 1663Gerbier Counsel e iv a, Waving all quick-chaws-like-devices. 1778F. Burney Evelina xix. (1784) 127 It's all kickshaw work. 1870Dickens E. Drood xii, He sang..no kickshaw ditties.
Hence kickshawed |ˈkɪkʃɔːd| a., consisting of or treated with kickshaws.
1622H. Sydenham Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637) 111 Beware then of this..kick-shawed luxury. 1862A. Vance tr. Hist. Jehan de Saintré Introd. 29 Good..reading..risen at of our greasy palates as is plum porridge of a kickshawed stomach. |