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Kickshaws

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kick⋅shaw

[kik-shaw]
–noun
1. a tidbit or delicacy, esp. one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
2. something showy but without value; trinket; trifle.

Origin:
1590–1600; back formation from kickshaws < F quelque chose something (by folk etym.)
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kick·shaw   (kĭk'shô')   
n.  
  1. A fancy food; a delicacy.

  2. A trinket; a gewgaw.


[By folk etymology from French quelque chose, something : quelque, some (quel, what from Latin quālis, of what kind; see quality + que, what, which, who from Vulgar Latin *que, from Latin quid, what; see quiddity) + chose, thing; see chose2.]
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