- a fancy food or dish; delicacy; tidbit
- a trinket; trifle; gewgaw
Origin of kickshaw
earlier kickshaws, altered (by folk etymology ) from French quelque chose, somethingkickshaw
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kickshaw
noun
- A fancy food; a delicacy.
- A trinket; a gewgaw.
Origin of kickshaw
By folk etymology from French quelque chose something quelque some ( quel what ) ( from Latin quālis of what kind ; see quality . ) ( que what, which, who ) ( from Vulgar Latin que ) ( from Latin quid what ; see quiddity . ) chose thing ; see chose 2.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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