shickery

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Adjective

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shickery (comparative more shickery, superlative most shickery)

  1. (obsolete, colloquial) Shabby; bad.
    • 1876, The Australian Journal, page 243:
      The platform itself was a shickery arrangement of trestles and shutters, and was kept by a publican for the use of travelling companies.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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