shickery

English

Adjective

shickery (comparative more shickery, superlative most shickery)

1. (obsolete, colloquial) Shabby; bad.
   • 1876, The Australian Journal, page 243:

     The platform itself was a shickery arrangement of trestles and shutters, and was kept by a publican for the use of travelling companies.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary