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  • noun US, slang A rascal, rogue.

Etymologies

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Origin uncertain.

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Examples

  • But little did he think that in a few moons, or "skeezicks" as they called it, he should pass to the happy hunting ground, and his bones be dug up by the white man, and hundreds and thousands pass over the place, not knowing that once a native

    The Bark Covered House William Nowlin 1852

  • "Them consarned lettle skeezicks -- I'd ha 'trounced the hull on 'em if they'd been mine."

    How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

  • She paused on the top step of the bus to view the marvels of this town of less than twenty thousand inhabitants, and then a skeezicks of a boy, very gay in brass buttons, and with a darling little round cap on his perky head, came and took forcible possession of her suit-case.

    The Long Chance 1918

  • She followed him into the hotel, where he checked her suit-case with the skeezicks who had stolen it, and then led her into the dining-room.

    The Long Chance 1918

  • "How do you like this, you old skeezicks?" and the colonel reads a stanza full of "lips" and "slips,"

    A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906

  • "What you got to say to that, little skeezicks?" he added teasingly to Eugene Grandois.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "What you got to say to that, little skeezicks?" he added teasingly to Eugene Grandois.

    Carnac's Folly, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "What you got to say to that, little skeezicks?" he added teasingly to Eugene Grandois.

    Carnac's Folly, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The old skeezicks that's been drivin 'his car lately come down half-dressed.

    Green Fancy George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • I give the solo to Tilly Wilkerson an 'if that old skeezicks didn't beller right out in the middle of it:

    Back Home Eugene Wood 1891

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  • sounds skeezy

    August 13, 2016

  • His speeches can only fleece hicks
    Who'll swallow his dreary sleaze mix.
    They haven't a prayer —
    This snake oil purveyor
    Is famed as a thorough skeezicks.

    August 13, 2016