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brickish, a. slang.|ˈbrɪkɪʃ|
[f. brick n. 5, 6 + -ish1.]
1. ‘Jolly’, ‘fine’, ‘capital’.
1856A. Smith Mr. Ledbury I. xix. 149 ‘How's the times?’ ‘Brickish.’
2. = bricky a. 1
1879G. M. Hopkins Poems (1918) 41 Thou [sc. Oxford] hast a base and brickish skirt there. 1900E. Glyn Visits Eliz. 257 She has quite a different coloured chest to the top bit that shows above her pearl collar, which is brickish-red from hunting. 1960Betjeman Summoned by Bells i. 1 Brickish Kentish Town seen through the leaves of Highgate.
Hence ˈbrickishness slang, the quality of being good-hearted or ‘brickish’.
1906Daily Chron. 26 July 3/2 Janet's sheer ‘brickishness’ held her faithful to her organist. 1924F. M. Ford Some do Not i. vi. 163 They had talked..about the brickishness of the parson in taking her in. |