shickery
English
editAdjective
editshickery (comparative more shickery, superlative most shickery)
- (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
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary