noun
a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
something showy but without value; trinket; trifle.
Examples:
a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
something showy but without value; trinket; trifle.
Examples:
When a stale cold fool is well heated, and hashed by a satirical cook, he may be tossed up into a kickshaw not disagreeable.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), Letter to Mr. Caryll, The Works of Alexander Pope: Volume VIII, 1824
Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.
Nathanael West, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, 1931
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), Letter to Mr. Caryll, The Works of Alexander Pope: Volume VIII, 1824
Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.
Nathanael West, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, 1931
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