Kickshaw

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kickshaw \Kick"shaw`\, n.
     See {Kickshaws}, the correct singular.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  kickshaw
       n : something considered choice to eat [syn: {dainty}, {delicacy},
            {goody}, {treat}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "kickshaw":
     a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, ambrosia,
     bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean,
     bibelot, bit, blocks, bonne bouche, brass farthing, bric-a-brac,
     button, cate, cent, checkerboard, chessboard, choice morsel, club,
     cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, curio, dainty, delicacy, dessert,
     doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite,
     folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club,
     goody, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box,
     jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, knack, knickknack,
     knickknackery, manna, marble, marionette, mig, minikin, mockery,
     molehill, morsel, nectar, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune,
     pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything,
     puppet, racket, rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse,
     row of pins, rush, savory, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, sport,
     steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, tidbit, titbit, top, toy,
     toy soldier, treat, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence,
     two cents, twopence, whim-wham