Meaning of kickable | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Capable or deserving of being kicked.
2. Incurring kicking.

Examples

“The home side were showing adventure, running from deep in their own⟳ half and booting a kickable penalty to touch⟳.”

“I look⟳ at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, […] fitter to be kickt, if ſhee vvere of a kickable ſubſtance, than either honoured or humoured.”

“Kickable people are of various descriptions. Amongst these are your kickable subjects prima facie;—those whose provocatives are visible and external, whose incentives to you to kick⟳ them lie⟳ chiefly in manner and bearing.”

“All sorts of kickable objects were used from ancient times until today's inflated ball, with a leather casing between 27 and 28 inches in circumference, was adopted.”

“The weekend inventor has five U.S. patents and three more pending for inspirations such as a kickable Frisbee, a clothes-ironing mitt and a leak-proof shower curtain.”

“Insolence of office is pre-eminently kickable. Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick⟳ him rising strong within him? […] Petty tyranny is also eminently kickable.”

“The first serious outbreak and renewal of hostilites ^([sic]) occurred when Dolly—who was now out of the doctor's hands—one morning sent his footman off at a moment's notice⟳, for gross impertinence of the severest kickable kind.”

“What if the very things you like⟳ in me now—you'd hate⟳ sometime. What if the things I think⟳ are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think⟳ were pig-headed and kickable after a while?”

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