Kicksie-wicksie
n.
a fanciful word for “wife” in Shakespeare (“All’s Well,” II iii.297), 1601, apparently a perversion of kickshaw “a fancy dish in cookery.”
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verb phrase To eject, expel, or dismiss someone; bounce: She kicked Peter out of the apartment (1711+)
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