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Webster 1828 Edition


Kickshoe

KICK'SHOE

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Noun.
A dancer, in contempt; a caperer; a buffoon. [A word used only by Milton.]

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kickshoe

kickshoe

English

Noun

kickshoe (plural kickshoes)

  1. Alternative form of kickshaw Kickshoe denotes a contempt for dance and implies the dancer is dainty but worthless.
    • 1644, Milton, Of Education:
      Nor shall we then need the Monsieurs of Paris to take our hopeful youth into their slight and prodigal custodies, and send them over back again transformed into mimicks, apes and kicshoes.