Pronunce
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/ˈkɪkəbəl/
Aggettivo
Capable or deserving of being kicked.
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The home side were showing adventure, running from deep in their own half and booting a kickable penalty to touch.
I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, […] fitter to be kickt, if ſhee vvere of a kickable ſubſtance, than either honoured or humoured.
Altri esempi (3)
Kickable people are of various descriptions. Amongst these are your kickable subjects prima facie;—those whose provocatives are visible and external, whose incentives to you to kick them lie chiefly in manner and bearing.
All sorts of kickable objects were used from ancient times until today's inflated ball, with a leather casing between 27 and 28 inches in circumference, was adopted.
The weekend inventor has five U.S. patents and three more pending for inspirations such as a kickable Frisbee, a clothes-ironing mitt and a leak-proof shower curtain.
Incurring kicking.
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Altri esempi (3)
Insolence of office is pre-eminently kickable. Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him? […] Petty tyranny is also eminently kickable.
The first serious outbreak and renewal of hostilites ^([sic]) occurred when Dolly—who was now out of the doctor's hands—one morning sent his footman off at a moment's notice, for gross impertinence of the severest kickable kind.
What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?