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单词 bicky
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bickyn.

Brit. /ˈbɪki/, U.S. /ˈbɪki/, Irish English /ˈbɪki/, Australian English /ˈbɪki/, New Zealand English /ˈbɪki/
Forms: 1800s– bicky, 1900s– biccie, 1900s– biccy, 1900s– bikkie, 1900s– bikky, 2000s– bickie.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: biscuit n., -y suffix6.
Etymology: Hypocoristic shortening of biscuit n.: see -y suffix6.
colloquial (chiefly British, Australian, New Zealand, and Irish English).
1. A biscuit.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun]
biscuit?a1400
biscuit bread1440
bake1523
biscake1650
cookie1701
bicky1834
sandwich biscuit1901
sandwich cookie1905
1834 Fayetteville (N. Carolina) Observer 15 July Yes, old aunt Betty, pickin' up chip fo' bake bicky (biscuit) fo' good chilluns.
1881 H. S. Barton What I did in ‘Long’ x. 52 Add to this some very good bread and butter, a few ginger ‘bickies’, some tiptop lager beer, and afterwards some not half-bad coffee.
1963 M. Allingham China Governess xiv. 171 He's going to be asked to share Eustace's boiled milk and bickies.
2019 Estates Gaz. 7 Dec. 66 The PM popped in for a cup of tea and a biccie with the pensioners in his home constituency last weekend.
2. In plural. Australian and New Zealand. Money. Chiefly in big bickies: a large sum of money; similarly small bickies.With allusion to the biscuit tin being a traditional place in which to store housekeeping money or petty cash savings.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1966 King's Cross Whisper (Sydney) No. 20. 8/1 Here in Kings Cross cabbage means money, and so does..lolly, bikkies and fat.
1981 Canberra Times 30 Oct. 2/7 Just showing up is worth big bickies.
1992 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 27 June 13 With a sale quota of $60 a kilogram, and export markets in Hong Kong, Asia and Canada, it is not small bikkies.
2015 Sunshine Coast (Queensland) Daily (Nexis) 15 May 20 Twenty thousand dollars for survival treatment for one koala is big bikkies.

Phrases

Australian and New Zealand. to take (out) the bickies and variants: to win a game or competition. Cf. to take the biscuit at biscuit n. and adj. Phrases.
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1968 Western Herald (Bourke, New S. Wales) 23 Aug. The opposition duly took out the biccies by a narrow but considerably well-deserved margin.
2004 rec.sport.rugby.union 15 June (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 28 Jan. 2019) Try telling that to a pom, yarpie, aussie or kiwi when their particular nation takes the bikkies!!
2018 @westerlymouth 11 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 28 Jan. 2019) After playing mediocre catch-up footy most of the game, @WestCoastEagles boys dug very deep and found enough to win the biccies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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