kicksy-wicksy

Definitions

Restless, fidgety.

archaic

Examples

“This kicksy wincy Giddibrain will spoil⟳ all. I’le no more Italian tricks.”

“True, she had her “kicksy-wicksy” days, as Sarell has said: days when it was “clear torment for her to lay⟳ still and keep⟳ herself out o’ things that she knew she could straighten out if she was only round amongst ’em”; […]”

“It seems to me an ungrateful return⟳ for the favour of Providence to begin⟳ a gadding, kicksy-wicksy life the moment you have⟳ a little money in your pocket, as much as to say⟳ how wretched you had been before!”

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