Meanings
nounpickadilly (plural pickadillies)
plural pickadillies
- alternativeAlternative form of piccadill.
But he that some fortie or fifty yeares sithens should haue asked for a Pickadilly, I wonder who could haue vnderstood him, or could haue told what a Pickadilly had beene, either fish or flesh.
1614, Barnabee Rych, The Honestie of this Age: Proouing by Good Circumstance that the World was Neuer Honest Till Now, London: T.A., pages 37-8
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