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单词 hiccius doccius
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hiccius docciusn.

/ˈhɪkʃɪəs ˈdɒkʃɪəs/
Forms: Also 1600s Hixius Doxius, Hictius Doctius, Hiccius-Docksius, 1700s hiccius-doxius, hicksius doxius, hixious doxious, hiccius-doctius.
Etymology: Conjectured to be a corruption of the Latin phrase hicce est doctus ‘this or here is the learned man’, if not merely a nonsense formula simulating Latin.
A formula used by jugglers in performing their feats; hence, ‘a cant word for a juggler; one that plays fast and loose’ (Johnson). Also attributive or as adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > formula [interjection]
hey-passa1593
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hiccius doccius1676
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presto changeo1905
1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso ii. 22 I shall stand here till one of 'em has whipt away my Mistris about business, with a Hixius Doxius.
1678 Quacks Acad. 5 All the use you are to make of such Terms, is the same Juglers do of Hictius Doctius and Presto.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 228 [An] Old Dul Sot; wh' had told the Clock..At Westminster, and Hickses-hall, And Hiccius-Dockius play'd in all.
1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon v. 52 Here's nothing, and here's nothing: and then hiccius doccius, and they are both here again.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. 211 The Author with his Hiccius-doxius Dexterity, can slur this on one Side, by a Word or two.
1794 Sporting Mag. 3 163 Our jugglers hixious doxious Shall distance all the Greeks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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