[Fictionary] Kicky-wicky definitions

[David Randall]

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kicky-wicky: (n.) a token of love sent in a long-distance relationship.

The Winter¹s Tale, IV.iv.458 [Camillo]: ³Their encounters, though not
personal, have been royally attorneyed with interchange of kicky-wickies,
loving embassies, that they have seemed to be together, though absent.²

kicky-wicky: (adj.)  badly mended, as trousers.

King Lear, I.iv.31 [Fool]: ³A drunkard tailor sews his breeches kicky-wicky;
so thou in statecraft, I in folly, God¹a¹mercy on us all.²

kicky-wicky: (n.) [jocular] girlfriend, wife

All¹s Well that Ends Well, II.iii.278 [Parolles]: He wears his honour in a
box unseen That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home.

kicky-wicky: (n,) involuntary muscle movements characteristic of late-stage
syphilis.  

The Second Part of King Henry IV, II.iv.123 [Falstaff]: A coward still thou
art.  Thy feet would run, I see, or else 'tis merely kicky-wicky makes thee
twitch.

kicky-wicky: (adj.)  politically sharp, exciting, and effective.

Julius Caesar, III.ii.73 [Mark Antony]: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend
me your ears.  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.  The evil that men
do lives after 
them.  The good is oft interred with their bones.  So let it be with Caesar.
His kicky-wicky rule over our land is ended, and will be seen no more."

kicky-wicky: (adj.) referring to midnight.

Pericles, I.i.14 [Gower, in Prologue]: ³Kicky-wicky hours and all is very
strange when Antiochus causes lives to disarrange.²
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