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Definition of Piccy
1. a photograph [n PICCIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piccy
Literary usage of Piccy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"122, Regent Street, London, WI Telephone : Regent 3406 Telegrams : Negretti,
piccy, London Manufacturers of industrial instruments for the indication, ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"Other imperfect pronunciations are : apy tee (apple tree), piccy book (picture
book), gamy or nannte (grandma), pee (please), pepe (pencil), mo-a (more), ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"... she number one piccy coffin, and she talkee, ' No pood, no can do !' "
Anglic* : " That woman is my mother. I have got for her a coffin of the ..."
4. The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly (1894)
"... I began again presently, " besides Rome and piccy-what's-his-name ? " "
Heaps," he said. " I'ma sort of Ulysses—seen men and cities, you know. ..."
5. The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"What was the piccy ?" "A fancy head that wouldn't come right,— horrid thing!"
"I don't like working over scraped paint when I'm doing flesh. ..."
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