- reau (thieves' = sheath); le fusil
à deux coups (popular = the double-barrel); les grimpants (popular); les inexpressibles (from the English); les haut-de-tire (thieves'); le montant.
Portuguese synonym. Os trózes.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Kicks, breeches.
1714. Memoirs of John Hall (4th ed.) p. 12. Kicksey, Breeches.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v. Tip us your kicks, we'll have them as well as your Lour.
1785. Grose, Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib, p. 13. That bedizen'd old Georgy's bang-up togs and kicks.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, p. 6. Reg. Stick it into him for a new pair of kickses, by-and-by.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, iii. 5. Jist twig his swell kickseys and pipes; if they ain't the thing, I'm done.
1859. Sala, Gaslight and Daylight, xxx. 'There's togs, too,' he pursued, looking with proper pride at his own attire, 'the sooner you peels off them cloth kicksies the better.'
1859. G. W. Matsell, Vocabulum, or the Rogue's Lexicon. Kersey-mere kicksies, any colour, built very slap with the artful dodge, from three caroon.
c.1867. Broadside Ballad, 'The Chickaleary Bloke'. Now kool my downy kicksies. . . . Built upon a plan very naughty.
1883. Daily Telegraph, August 7, p. 6, col. 1. What he termed 'the saucy cut of his kicksies,' and which, rendered into intelligible English, signified the smart style of his trousers.
1885. The Stage, p. 129. Whitechapel costers who wore slap-up kicksies, with a double fakement down each side, and artful buttons at bottom.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 76. He'd a apron, Charlie, and kicksies as must ha' been cut by his wife.
1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger's Sweetheart, p. 31. 'A good thing Cinderella's grand ball was a little before your time, Stringy, or she'd been out of it with these kickseys,' remarked Tony Peters gravely.
8. (common).—A sudden and strong objection; unexpected resistance.
Verb. (common).—1. To borrow or beg; to break shins (q.v.). For synonyms see Shins. Specifically to ask for drink money.
1858. A. Mayhew, Paved with Gold, p. 254. Ned Purchase suggested that they might as well try and kick him for some coppers.
2. (colloquial).—To protest; to resist; to resent.
1611. Bible, Authorised Version. 1 Sam. ii. 29. Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice?
1847. Tennyson, Princess, iv. 393. You hold that woman is the better man: A rampant heresy, such as, if it spread, Would make all women kick against their Lords.
1871. Daily News, 29 Dec. The love of pleasure he's been encouraged in won't make him kick against useful information.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. There are 10,000 baby carriages in Chicago. They obstruct the travel of 200,000 people. I kick.
1889. Nation, xlviii. 137. In a late number you maintain strongly that it is the duty of persons suffering from over-*charges, insolence and other forms of oppression, to kick.
1889. Bird O' Freedom, 7 Aug., p. 6. When it comes to editors waking up and tackling hard-worked foremen by the neck, then I kick.
1891. Morning Advertiser, 6 April. The men certainly kicked against this increase.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, p. 25. Kick at my lingo.
3. (common).—To recoil: of fire-arms generally.
