skeezicksn.
/ˈskiːzɪks/ U.S. slang.
A good-for-nothing, a rascal, a rogue. (Now usually playfully of children.)
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > playful or mischievous roguery > young or playful rogue
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skeezicks1908
1850 Frontier Guardian (Kanesville, Iowa) 2 Oct. 3/5 Though Kister that skeezecks with Hall at his back, Should come again thieving [etc.].
1869 B. Harte in Overland Monthly June 572/1 Thar aint nobody but him within ten mile of the shanty, and that 'ar d——d old skeesicks knows it.
1875 J. G. Holland Sevenoaks iii. 40 If there's anything awful bad..in [the word] Skeezacks—I should say that Tom Buffum was an old Skeezacks.
1894 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Ebb-tide i. vi Nobody wants to lose a schooner; they want to lose her on her course, you skeericks [sic]!
1908 Everybody's Dec. 796/2 This is a poor skeezicks that's got nothing to eat but an onion.
1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 238/2 The old skeesicks ain't calling our hand this deal.
1939 P. A. Rollins Gone Haywire v. 117 Eb Hawkins, that ol' skeesicks you met on th' railway train an' liked, is th' feller that's acted as th' owners' agent in sellin' rights to your uncle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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