"kicky" antedating

[Mullins, Bill]

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

I don't have the HDAS, glad to see that it's in there.