What does kickshaw mean?
Kickshaw means A dainty or delicacy..
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/ˈkɪk.ʃɔː/ · noun
A dainty or delicacy..
Some Pigeons Davy, a couple of ſhort-legg'd Hennes: a / ioynt of Mutton, and any pretty little tine Kickſhawes, / tell William Cooke.
Allow me now to recommend this dish— / A simple kickshaw by your Persian cook, / Such as is served at the great King’s second table.
The "Penny Magazine" for 1842 has a good and suggestive paper on "Feasts and Entertainments," with extracts from some of the early dramatists and a woodcut of "a new French cook, to devise fine kickshaws and toys."
The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.
Art thou good at theſe kicke-chawſes Knight?
Use kickshaw when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Kickshaw means A dainty or delicacy..
Common synonyms include dainty, delicacy, treat, goody.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Some Pigeons Davy, a couple of ſhort-legg'd Hennes: a / ioynt of Mutton, and any pretty little tine Kickſhawes, / tell William Cooke.
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