hickery-pickery
vulgar perversion of hiera picra.
| 1816 Scott Old Mort. viii, The leddy cured me wi' some hickery-pickery. 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid 280 How to use hykerie pykerie and rue. |
hickery-pickery
vulgar perversion of hiera picra.
| 1816 Scott Old Mort. viii, The leddy cured me wi' some hickery-pickery. 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid 280 How to use hykerie pykerie and rue. |
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