Kicksy-wicksy

This kicksy wincy Giddibrain will spoil all. I’le no more Italian tricks.

True, she had her “kicksy-wicksy” days, as Sarell has said: days when it was “clear torment for her to lay still and keep herself out o’ things that she knew she could straighten out if she was only round amongst ’em”; […]

It seems to me an ungrateful return for the favour of Providence to begin a gadding, kicksy-wicksy life the moment you have a little money in your pocket, as much as to say how wretched you had been before!