Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Kick’shaw, n. a nondescript fantastical thing.
Word in the Wild: That’s neither a fusion reactor nor an adequate science-fair project: it’s nothing more than a kickshaw.
Kickshaw is a mangling of the French quelque chose, which means something in English.
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