3. (common).—Style; fashion; form; ‘the thing’: e.g., that’s the proper
Kibosh.
Verb. (common).—To spoil; to flummox (q.v.), to queer (q.v.); to
bewilder or knock out of time.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 5. They kiboshed the power of the
quid. Ibid. p. 50. A dig in the ribs and a ’owl, Seemed to kibosh
the Frenchmen completely.
To put the kibosh on, verb. phr. (common).—1. To stop; to silence. (2)
To wheedle or talk over. (3) To run down.
1836. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, p. 40. ‘What do you mean by
hussies?’ interrupts a champion of the other party.... (‘Hooroar,’
ejaculates a pot-boy in parenthesis, ‘put the kye-bosh on her,
Mary!’)
1856. Punch, vol. 31. p. 139. I ope the Assistans of your powrful
Penn to put the cibosh upon the Siety for the Perwention of wot
they calls crulety to Hanimals.
Kibsy. See Kypsy.
Kick, subs. (old).—1. The fashion.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Kick, a High kick, the top of
the Fashion; also singularity therein.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Kick. It is all the kick, it is the
present mode.
d. 1814. Dibdin [quoted in Century]. ’Tis the kick, I say, old ’un,
so I brought it down.
1833. Neal, Down Easters, v. p. 64. What do ye pay for sech a pair
o’ boots as them in Eurup? Newest fashion out here—all the kick, I
spose, hey?
d. 1836. Geo. Colman the Younger [quoted by Brewer]. I cocked my
hat, and twirled my stick, And the girls they called me quite the
kick.
2. (old).—A sixpence: of compound sums only, e.g. ‘three and a kick’ =
3s. 6d. For synonyms see Bender.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom & Jerry, iii, 3. ‘What’s to pay landlord?’...
‘Fourteen bob and a kick your honor.’
1834. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, iii. xiii. ‘Two coach-wheels
[crowns], half a bull [half a crown], three hogs [shillings], and a
kick.’
1860. Punch, xxxix, p. 97. Moshesh is a brick; This cost but ten
and a kick.
1864. Soiled Dove, p. 263. ‘Six bob and a kick, if so be as the
holes are mended.’
1871. Echo, 15 May. ‘What do you mean by telling me that you will
take it away for a kick?’ ‘Wot do I mean? why wot I say; I’ll do
the job for sixpence, and me and my mate ’ull sweep up any mess we
makes as well.’
1871. Figaro, March. Let persons addicted to the use of slang, in
whose dialect two-and-a-kick means half-a-crown, remark, if they
please, that they would twelve times rather have a kick than a
half-penny.