kickshaw

kickshaw, -shaws ki.kSo(hook), -So(hook)z, . Forms:
1. A fancy dish in cookery. (Chiefly with contemptuous force: A
`something' French, not one of the known `substantial English'
dishes.)

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* 1598 Florio, Carabozzada, a kinde of daintie dish or quelque
chose vsed in Italie.

* 1611 Cotgr., Fricandeaux, short, skinlesse, and daintie
puddings, or Quelkchoses.

* 1612 Dekker If it be not good Wks. 1873 II. 285 Ile teach..to
make caudels, Iellies..cowslip sallads, and kickchoses.

* 1642 Featly Dippers Dipt (1645) 199, I made bold to set on the
board kicke-shoses, and variety of strange fruits.

* 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 366 Over curious
Cookery, making..quelque-choses of unsavoury..Meat.

* 1655 E. Terry Voy. E. Ind. (1665) 408 With these quelque chose,
was that entertainment made up.

* A. 1656 Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 4 Longing after fine quelque
choices of new and artificial composition.

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* 1597 Shaks. 2 Hen. IV, vi. i. 29 (Qo. 1) A ioynt of Mutton, and
any pretty little tinie Kick-shawes.

* 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. ii. (1651) 319 That scarce at
first had course bread..must now feed on kickshoes and made
dishes.

* 1709 Addison Tatler No. 148 P10 That substantial English Dish
banished in so ignominious a Manner, to make Way for French
Kickshaws.

* 1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 195 The kickshaws were
half raw, the solids were mere rags.

* 1874 Helps Soc. Press. xiii. 187 You have a nice cut of
wholesome leg of mutton..none of your made dishes and
kickshaws.

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* 1674 tr. Scheffer's Lapland xviii. 92 Another kick-shaw that
pleaseth them very much they make of Angelica.

* 1714 Macky Journ. Eng. (1724) II. xvi. 227 They go to a Cooks
Shop, and ask for a Kickshaw.

* 1840 Thackeray G. Cruikshank (1869) 303 The Chef is instructing
a kitchen-maid how to compound some rascally French kickshaw.

fig.

* 1653 Gauden Hierasp. 63 Dished up to the mode of Familistick
hashes, and Socinians..Keckshoes.

* 1659 Gauden Tears Ch. ii. xix. 204 Enough..of these late
Hashshes, Olives, and Queckshoes of Religion.

2. Something dainty or elegant, but unsubstantial or comparatively
valueless; a toy, trifle, gew-gaw. In 1654 applied to a person.

* 1601 Shaks. Twel. N. i. iii. 122 A. I delight in Maskes and
Reuels sometimes altogether. T. Art thou good at these
kicke-chawses Knight?

* A. 1626 Fletcher Nice Valour iv. i, At my wives'
instigation..(As women loue these Heralds' kickshawes
naturally) I bought 'em.

* 1654 in Ludlow's Mem. (1894) I. 382 You..may think he had
power, but they made a very kickshaw of him in London.

* 1722-3 Swift in Pope's Wks. (1871) VII. 36 Has he [Pope] some
quelque chose of his own upon the anvil?

* 1823 Scott in Four C. Eng. Lett. 403 He may be desirous of
offering some test of his gratitude in the shape of a reprint,
or such like kickshaw.

* 1886 E. L. Bynner A. Surriage xxxi. 378 Go buy some kickshaws
to send home to your mother.

3. A fantastical, frivolous person. Obs. exc. dial.

* 1644 Milton Educ. ad fin., The Monsieurs of Paris to take our
hopeful Youth..and send them over back again transformed into
Mimicks, Apes, and Kickshoes.

* A. 1656 Ussher Ann. (1658) 708 Xuthus a musitian, Metrodorus a
dancer, and all the Asian comicks and kickshaws crept into the
Court.

* 1828 Craven Dial., Kickshaw, a proud, vain person.

4. attrib. as adj. Frivolous, trifling.

* 1658 Sir T. Mayerne Archimag. Anglo-Gall. Pref. 4 The Kick-shaw
Language, which these Cham‘leon-Times love to feede on;

* 1663 Gerbier Counsel e iv a, Waving all
quick-chaws-like-devices.

* 1778 Miss Burney Evelina xix. (1784) 127 It's all kickshaw
work.

* 1870 Dickens E. Drood xii, He sang..no kickshaw ditties.

Hence

kickshawed

kickshawed ki.kSo(hook)d a., consisting of or treated with
kickshaws.

* 1622 H. Sydenham Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637) 111 Beware then of
this..kick-shawed luxury.

* 1862 A. Vance tr. Hist. Jehan de Saintr‚ Introd. 29
Good..reading..risen at of our greasy palates as is plum
porridge of a kickshawed stomach.'kickshaw' in entire

'kickshaw' in quotations

Found: 26 entries
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1.  eating (1884) Ruskin in Pall Mall G. 27 Oct. 6/1 ``You
have..kickshaws instead of beef for your eating.''
2.  kickshaw (1709) Addison Tatler No. 148 &page.10 ``That
substantial English Dish banished in so ignominious a Manner,
to make Way for French Kickshaws. ''
3.  kickshaw (1824) Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 195 ``The
kickshaws were half raw, the solids were mere rags. ''
4.  kickshaw (1874) Helps Soc. Press. xiii. 187 ``You have a nice
cut of wholesome leg of mutton..none of your made dishes and
kickshaws.''
5.  kickshaw (1714) Macky Journ. Eng. (1724) II. xvi. 227 ``They
go to a Cooks Shop, and ask for a Kickshaw. ''
6.  kickshaw (1840) Thackeray G. Cruikshank (1869) 303 ``The Chef
is instructing a kitchen-maid how to compound some rascally
French kickshaw.''
7.  kickshaw (A. 1626) Fletcher Nice Valour iv. i, ``At my wives'
instigation..(As women loue these Heralds' kickshawes
naturally) I bought 'em. ''
8.  kickshaw (1654) in Ludlow's Mem. (1894) I. 382 ``You..may
think he had power, but they made a very kickshaw of him in
London. ''
9.  kickshaw (1823) Scott in Four C. Eng. Lett. 403 ``He may be
desirous of offering some test of his gratitude in the shape of
a reprint, or such like kickshaw. ''
10.  kickshaw (1886) E. L. Bynner A. Surriage xxxi. 378 ``Go buy
some kickshaws to send home to your mother.''
11.  kickshaw (A. 1656) Ussher Ann. (1658) 708 ``Xuthus a musitian, Metrodorus a dancer, and all the Asian comicks and kickshaws crept into the Court. ''
12.  kickshaw (1828) Craven Dial., ``Kickshaw, a proud, vain
person.''
13.  kickshaw (1778) Miss Burney Evelina xix. (1784) 127 ``It's all
kickshaw work. ''
14.  kickshaw (1870) Dickens E. Drood xii, ``He sang..no kickshaw
ditties.''
15.  kickshaw (1862) A. Vance tr. Hist. Jehan de Saintr&eacu.
Introd. 29 ``Good..reading..risen at of our greasy palates as
is plum porridge of a kickshawed stomach.''
16.  little (1597) Shaks. 2 Hen. IV, v. i. 29 ``Any pretty little
tine Kickshawes. ''
17.  macaroon (1630) J. Taylor (Water P.) Gt. Eater Kent Wks. i.
146/1 ``Whether it bee..Fritter, or Flapiacke, or Posset,
Galley-Mawfrey, Mackeroone, Kickshaw, or Tantablin. ''
18.  marzipan (A. 1652) Brome City Wit iv. ii, ``You have your
Kickshaws, your Players Marchpaines; all shew and no meat.''
19.  pick-me-up(1922) Joyce Ulysses 49 ``She lives in Leeson park,
with a grief and kickshaws, a lady of letters. Talk that to
some else, Stevie: a pickmeup. ''
20.  pipe (1656) R. Short Drinking Water Pref. A ij b, ``We see so
many kickshaws in all sciences..and new Paradoxes in Physick,
piping out of the Novelists Braines.''
21.  pulpatoon (1637) Nabbes Microcosm. iii. 109, ``I then send
forth a fresh supply of Rabits, Pheasant, Kid, Partridge,
Quaile,..with a French troope of Pulpatoones, Mackaroones,
Kickshawes, grand and excellent. ''
22.  ragout (1885) A. Dobson At the Sign of Lyre 123 ``He classed
your Kickshaws and Ragoos With Popery and Wooden Shoes.''
23.  Sillery (A. 1688) Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Works (1752) 116 ``As
for French kickshaws, cellery and champain,..in troth we 'ave
none. ''
24.  soup maigr(1833) Sands Poems 53 (E.D.D.), ``Soup-meagre,
kickshaws, or plain calf's-foot jelly. ''
25.  tantadlin (1630) J. Taylor (Water P.) Gt. Eater Kent Wks. i.
146/1 ``Pancake, or Fritter,..Mackeroone, Kickshaw, or
Tantablin. ''
26.  tinner (1906) Referee 26 Aug. 9/2 ``Then down with the
kickshaws that all taste alike, And the stock of cold storer
and tinner.''

'kickshaw' in entire entry

Found: 24 entries
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1. conceit
2. cuck-shaws
3. eating
4. junket
5. keck-shoes
6. kekshoes
7. kicksey-winsey
8. kickshaw
9. knick-knack; nick-nack
10. little
11. macaroon
12. marzipan; marchpane
13. pick-me-up
14. pipe
15. pulpatoon
16. quelque-chose
17. quick-chaws
18. quickshaw
19. ragout
20. Sillery
21. soup maigre
22. sunket
23. tantadlin; tantoblin
24. tinner