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Definition of Anticking
1. antick [v] - See also: antick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticking
Literary usage of Anticking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"... a species of posturing and anticking at which the superior snicker — and most
often rightly — is not the only impoverished and absurd tactic upon the ..."
2. Progress in Religion to the Christian Era by Terrot Reaveley Glover (1922)
"whitened faces and mincing gait still anticking about the streets in his day.
What they were, Lucian and Apuleius tell us. It is impossible not to feel ..."
3. Tales of the Southern Border by Charles Wilkins Webber (1853)
"... condescend to be our guide I" Fanny now went frisking and anticking before
them— pausing now and then to look behind, as if to invite them to follow. ..."
4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1883)
"The best feature of the whole affair to our minds was the anticking of a company
of Pierrots, who, we were told, were young gentlemen of position. ..."
5. Jerry of the Islands by Jack London (1917)
"Jerry no more than cocked a contemptuous quizzical eye at the mainsail anticking
above him. He knew already the empty windiness of its threats, ..."
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