hickery

When he had done this, he went to the forest near them, cut down a young pine-tree, dug up a root of the hemlock, took a spruce cone, an oak acorn, a hickery nut, and a birch-leaf, and laid them all in the fire which the Nanticoke had kindled.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

[11] Julia Mannering reminds me a little of Julia Townsend: and if this be doubtful, the connection of Jerry's "Old madam gave me some higry-pigry" and Cuddie's "the leddy cured me with some hickery-pickery" is not.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

We put hickery nuts in our mouths so our voices would sound different, so he wouldn't know us, and was telling the other boys about what a time we had cutting up the last man we bought.

Peck's Compendium of Fun 1878

I ne’er gat ony gude by his doctrine, as ye ca’t, but a sour fit o’ the batts wi’ sitting amang the wat moss-hags for four hours at a yoking, and the leddy cured me wi’ some hickery-pickery; mair by token, an she had kend how I came by the disorder, she wadna hae been in sic a hurry to mend it.”

Old Mortality 2004

Another form is inkie-pinkie [perhaps the same as hickery - pickery, a purgative, originally a corruption of Latin (and

Willie Buckthorne Had a Cow 1976

I ne'er gat ony gude by his doctrine, as ye ca't, but a sour fit o 'the batts wi' sitting amang the wat moss-hags for four hours at a yoking, and the leddy cured me wi 'some hickery-pickery; mair by token, an she had kend how I came by the disorder, she wadna hae been in sic a hurry to mend it. "

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

I ne'er gat ony gude by his doctrine, as ye ca't, but a sour fit o 'the batts wi' sitting amang the wat moss-hags for four hours at a yoking, and the leddy cured me wi 'some hickery-pickery; mair by token, an she had kend how I came by the disorder, she wadna hae been in sic a hurry to mend it. "

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

The trees are much 'the fame with thofe in Virginia, and by their dif - ferent fpecies the quality of the foil is eaftly difco* vered; for the grounds which bear the oak, the walnut, and the hickery, are extremely fertile: they confift of a dark fand, intermixed with loam; and as here all the land abounds with nitre, it is a long time before it is exhaufted -, the planters never ufing any manure.

A general history of the British empire in America : containing an historical, political, and commercial view of the English settlements ; including all the countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the peace of Paris 1770