Definition of "kickshaws" []

• Plural form of kickshaw. (noun)

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• "Such dinners they may pronounce as mere flummery and "kickshaws," but the partakers of them will not often endorse their opinion, nor desire to return to the antique fashions of 1773."
• "Little "kickshaws" for Polly lay on the table before him, and a small fire burned in the grate, with a huge kettle thereon."
• "“We are well enough now,” said Mowbray, “though we have had none of their d — — d kickshaws.”"