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Webster 1913 Edition
Kecksy
Keck′sy
,Noun.
pl.
Kecksies
(-sĭz)
. [Properly pl. of
kex
. See Kex
.] (Bot.)
The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock.
[Written also
kex
, and in pl.
, kecks
, kaxes
.] Nothing teems
But hateful docks, rough thistles,
But hateful docks, rough thistles,
kecksies
, burs. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Kecksy
KECK'SY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
kecksy
kecksy
English
Noun
kecksy (plural kecksies)
- The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the hemlock.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, Act V, Scene 2, 1833, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Edmond Malone (editors), The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, New Edition, page 436,
- […] Conceives by idleness; and nothing teems, / But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, / Losing both beauty and utility.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, Act V, Scene 2, 1833, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Edmond Malone (editors), The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, New Edition, page 436,
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- ↑ 1833, T. F. Thiselton Dyer, Folk-Lore of Shakespeare, 2004, Facsimile Reprint, page 212 — It has been suggested that kecksies may be a mistaken form of the plural kex ; and that kex may have been formed from keck, something so dry that the eater would keck at it, or be unable to swallow it.