also KICKSEE-WINSEE, KICKSIE WINSIE, KICKSY WINCY, and in the plural KICKSHIWINSHES (Note: E-HAL and E-WRI both list KICKSEE-WINSEE with the definition - a term implying restlessness or uncertainty, "and as a substantive, it may be explained an unruly jade, and figuratively, a wife") CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES apparently a whimsical formation, suggested by kick and wince; but possibly connected with kickshaws trifles, anything fanciful adjective - c 1650 ? Fletcher's Poems adverb - 1622 - Farewell to the Tower Bottles, John Taylor (water poet) (see second example below) noun - 1599 Lenten Stuffe, Thomas Nashe (see first example below) From: Nash's Lenten Stuff Or, Praise of The Red Herring Edited by Charles Hindley, 1871 P. 111 (for adverb)
From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933
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