† flickyadj.1
Obsolete. rare.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adjective] > spasmodic > twitching
micant1661
flig1677
flicky1690
fliggy1711
flip1723
1690 London Gaz. No. 2559/4 A dark grey Mare about 14 hands..a rough Mane, and flicky Tayl.
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flickyadj.2
/ˈflɪki/ Of or pertaining to a flick, jerky.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adjective] > jerking > jerky
jerky1670
flingy1838
jerkish1861
snappy1872
jerksome1880
herky-jerky1890
flicky1897
syncopated1924
1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 137 There is something distinctly jerky and flicky in this projection of the elbow and straightening of the arm.
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adj.21897- to make great force
- to make great matter
- to make great menace
- to make great play of
- to make great play with
- to make great reckoning of
- to make great regard of
- to make great store of
- to make gree
- to make grith
- to make groceries
- to make ground
- to make harms
- to make haste
- to make haste from the pitch
- to make haste off the pitch
- to make haste slowly
- to make have force
- to make havoc
- to make hay
- to make hay of
- to make hay while the sun shines
- to make head against
- to make head nor tail of
- to make head to