Definition of Dricksie

1. druxy [adj DRICKSIER, DRICKSIEST] - See also: druxy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dricksie

dribbled
dribbler
dribblers
dribbles
dribblet
dribblets
dribblier
dribbling
dribbly
driblet
driblets
dribs
dribs and drabs
drice
drices
dricksie (current term)
dricksier
dried
dried-out
dried-up
dried alum
dried apricot
dried fruit
dried human albumin
dried human plasma protein fraction
dried human serum
dried milk
dried out
dried plum
dried plums

Literary usage of Dricksie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Dryden, Prologue to The Loyal Brother, 22. Cp. prov. ' drib', a drop, a small quantity of liquid (EDD.). dricksie, decayed ; as timber; ..."

2. Modern English by Fitzedward Hall (1873)
""A drie and dricksie oke." Puttenham, p. 205. Dr. John Hoadly signs himself, at the end of a letter, " Your affectionate ..."

3. Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy by George Gascoigne, William Webbe, James, John Harington, Francis Meres, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Bolton, Edmund Spenser, Gabriel Harvey (1811)
"... euery way ye list: or an old man who laboureth with continuall infirmities, to a drie and dricksie oke. Such parables were all the preachings of Christ ..."

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