Meanings
nounpistick (plural pisticks)
plural pisticks
- attributiveobsoletesometimesA pistachio nut.
Trallianus discommends figs, Salvianus olives and capers, which others especially like of, and so of pistick nuts.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 1, subsection 1
Origin
Alteration of pistachio.
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