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Re: Welsh hearts was Re: A request for Ray: The aptitive

From:Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 7:06
At 5:47 pm -0500 9/3/99, Padraic Brown wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Orjan Johansen wrote: > >> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Padraic Brown wrote: >> >> > If that doesn't quite do it; send it to bed without its charcoal >> > bicky. >> ^^^^^ >> >> Excuse me, but I couldn't find that word in WWWebster... > >I picked it up in a book somewhere as sort of slang for biscuit or cooky.
It's British, and common enough here. As Padraig says, it means "biscuit" (i.e. cooky :) As well as bickies, we also eat sarnies. (Sandwiches :) Ray.