kickshaw

Other forms of kickshaw

plural

kickshaws·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kickshaw

What does kickshaw mean?

kickshaw means "something considered choice to eat".

How many syllables are in kickshaw?

kickshaw has 2 syllables: kick-shaw. The stress falls on "kick".

What is another word for kickshaw?

Close synonyms include dainty, delicacy, goody, treat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kickshaw a common word?

kickshaw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.