kickshaw

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: kick=shaw

CIDE DICTIONARY

kickshaw, n. 

 See Kickshaws, the correct singular.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kickshaw, n.
1 archaic, usu. derog. a fancy dish in cookery.
2 something elegant but insubstantial; a toy or trinket.

Etymology

F quelque chose something

THESAURUS

kickshaw

a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, agate, ambrosia, bagatelle, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, blocks, bonne bouche, brass farthing, bric-a-brac, button, cate, cent, checkerboard, chessboard, choice morsel, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, curio, dainty, delicacy, dessert, doll, doll carriage, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, goody, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jest, joke, knack, knickknack, knickknackery, manna, marble, marionette, mig, minikin, mockery, molehill, morsel, nectar, paper doll, peppercorn, picayune, pick-up sticks, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rap, red cent, rocking horse, row of pins, rush, savory, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, sport, steelie, straw, taw, teetotum, tidbit, titbit, top, toy, toy soldier, treat, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whim-wham