kicksie-wicksie

kicksie-wicksie
kicksie-wicksie a fanciful word for "wife" in Shakespeare ("All's Well," II iii.297), 1601, apparently a perversion of KICKSHAW (Cf. kickshaw) "a fancy dish in cookery."

Etymology dictionary. 2014.

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