"kicky" antedating

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:02:50AM -0400, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2004, at 2:06 AM, Mullins, Bill wrote:
>
> >From OED
> >3. Providing 'kicks', exciting, lively. N. Amer. colloq
> >
> >first cite in OED is 1968.
>
> "Kicky" is so old that it's almost unbelievable that it didn't appear
> in print until the mid-'Sixties.

Except, of course, for that 1942 quote in HDAS.

Jesse Sheidlower
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