† kicksey-winseyn.adj.adv.
Obsolete.
A. n.
A fantastic device; a whim or erratic fancy. (In quot. 1640 apparently used interjectionally.)
ΘΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim
fantasya1450
wantonness1531
humour1533
worm?a1534
will1542
toy?1545
whey-worm1548
wild worm1548
freak1563
crotchet1573
fancy1579
whim-wham1580
whirligig1589
caper1592
megrim1593
spleen1594
kicksey-winsey1599
fegary1600
humorousness1604
curiosity1605
conundrum1607
whimsy1607
windmill1612
buzza1616
capriccioa1616
quirka1616
flama1625
maggota1625
fantasticality1631
capruch1634
gimcrack1639
whimseycado1654
caprich1656
excursion1662
frisk1665
caprice1673
fita1680
grub1681
fantasque1697
whim1697
frolic1711
flight1717
whigmaleery1730
vagary1753
maddock1787
kink1803
fizgig1824
fad1834
whimmery1837
fantod1839
brain crack1853
whimsy-whamsy1871
tic1896
tick1900
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 74 The lousie riddle..with eight score more galliarde crosse-poynts, and kickshiwinshes of giddy eare-wig brains.
1619 J. Taylor (title) A kicksey winsey: or a lerry come-twang.
1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden 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.
ΘΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical
startfulmood?a1300
wildc1350
volage?a1366
gerfulc1374
geryc1386
wild-headeda1400
skittishc1412
gerish1430
shittle1440
shittle-witted1448
runningc1449
volageous1487
glaikit1488
fantasious1490
giggish1523
tickle or light of the sear?1530
fantastical1531
wayward1531
wantona1538
peevish1539
light-headed1549
humoral1573
unstaid1579
shittle-headed1580
toy-headed1581
fangled1587
humorous1589
choiceful1591
toyish1598
tricksy1598
skip-brain1603
capricious1605
humoursome1607
planetary1607
vertiginous1609
whimsieda1625
ingiddied1628
whimsy1637
toysome1638
cocklec1640
mercurial1647
garish1650
maggoty1650
kicksey-winseya1652
freakish1653
humourish1653
planetic1653
whimsical1653
shittle-braineda1655
freaking1663
maggoty-headed1667
maggot-pated1681
hoity-toity1690
maggotish1693
maggot-headeda1695
whimsy-headed1699
fantasque1701
crotchetly1702
quixotic1718
volatile1719
holloweda1734
conundrumical1743
flighty1768
fly-away1775
dizzy1780
whimmy1785
shy1787
whimming1787
quirky1789
notional1791
tricksome1815
vagarish1819
freakful1820
faddy1824
moodish1827
mawky1837
erratic1841
rockety1843
quirkish1848
maggoty-pated1850
crotchetya1854
freaksome1854
faddish1855
vagrom1882
fantasied1883
vagarisome1883
on-and-offish1888
tricksical1889
freaky1891
hobby-horsical1893
quirksome1896
temperamental1907
up and down1960
untogether1969
fanciful-
fantastic-
a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden i. i. 17 in Five New Playes (1659) This kicksy wincy Giddibrain will spoil all. I'le no more Italian tricks.
1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 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.
C. adv.
? Topsy-turvy.
ΘΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase] > in of or natural order
kicksey-winsey1622
1622 J. Taylor Farewell to Tower Bottles in Wks. (1630) iii. 126/2 And (but for me) apparantly 'tis knowne You had beene kicksie winsie ouerthrowne.
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