| Webster's Online Dictionary |
"HICKATHRIFT" is a common misspelling or typo for: Hick thrift. |
Date "HICKATHRIFT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Hickathrift (Tom or Jack). A poor labourer in the time of the Conquest, of such enormous strength that, armed with an axletree and cartwheel only, he killed a giant who dwelt in a marsh at Tilney, Norfolk. He was knighted and made governor of Thanet. He is sometimes called Hickafric. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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