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Definition of Pickthanks
1. pickthank [n] - See also: pickthank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickthanks
Literary usage of Pickthanks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study in the Warwickshire Dialect by Appleton Morgan (1899)
"It will be interesting to consulters of the foregoing Glossary to see that the
Warwickshire dialect word "pickthanks" (pp. 180, 344), which Shakespeare uses ..."
2. Shakespeare's Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays Compared by Raphael Holinshed, Walter George Boswell-Stone (1907)
"The Prince's reference to the slanders of certain " pickthanks," who accused him
of a more serious transgression than that of keeping loose company, ..."
3. Journal by Australian Ex Libris Society (1885)
"... such extenuation let me beg, As, in reproof of many tales devis'd,— "Which
oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,— By smiling pickthanks and base ..."
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