hickock

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hickock^¹

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From a reduplicated variant of hic, hick (“to hiccup”), formed as a quasi-diminutive as though equivalent to hick + -ock.

noun hickocks · hichcock

A hiccup.

Hickock^²

proper noun Hickocks

A surname. Smith hears Nancy's protests - "Don't ... no, please don't." - when Hickock menaces her with "You ever had a man?" Finding Hickock rubbing her thigh as she whimpers in fear, Smith confronts him about his intentions, and Hickock says, "First, I'm going to bust that little girl." Smith tells him no, b

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@misc{hickock_2026,
  title = {hickock},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hickock},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}