kickshaw

英語

詞源

源自中古法語 quelque chose (「某物」)。

發音

國際音標^(幫助): /ˈkɪk.ʃɔː/

名詞

kickshaw (複數 kickshaws)

美味，佳餚
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, 「The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]」, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]，第 96 頁，第 1 列:
  Some Pigeons Davy, a couple of ſhort-legg'd Hennes: a / ioynt of Mutton, and any pretty little tine Kickſhawes, / tell William Cooke.
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- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts，第 39 頁:
  Allow me now to recommend this dish— / A simple kickshaw by your Persian cook, / Such as is served at the great King’s second table.
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- 1886, William Carew Hazlitt, 「The Early Englishman and His Food」, 出自 Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine, 出版於 1902:
  The "Penny Magazine" for 1842 has a good and suggestive paper on "Feasts and Entertainments," with extracts from some of the early dramatists and a woodcut of "a new French cook, to devise fine kickshaws and toys."
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- 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
  The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.
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玩意兒，東西
- c. 1601–1602 （写稿日期）, 威廉·莎士比亚, 「Twelfe Night, or What You Will [第十二夜]」, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio（第一对开本）), 伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard和Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]，第 257 頁，第 1 列:
  Art thou good at theſe kicke-chawſes Knight?
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延伸閱讀

「kickshaw」，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.