单词 | bicky |
释义 | bickyn. colloquial (chiefly British, Australian, New Zealand, and Irish English). 1. A biscuit. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1834 |
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