- kickshaw (n.)
- late 16c., "a fancy dish in cookery" (especially a non-native one), from English pronunciation of French quelque chose "a something, a little something."
- kicksie-wicksie (n.)
- a fanciful word for "wife" in Shakespeare ("All's Well," II iii.297), 1601, apparently a perversion of kickshaw "a fancy dish in cookery."
- kickstand (n.)
- "metal support for holding a bicycle upright," 1936, from kick (v.) + stand (n.). So called for the method of putting it in position.