kicken

Updated: May 14, 2025

The English are the boys for tradin with; they shell out their cash like a sheef of wheat in frosty weather it flies all over the thrashin floor; but then they are a cross grained, ungainly, kicken breed of cattle, as I een a most ever see'd.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville