kickable

Capable or deserving of being kicked.

Adjective

  1. Capable or deserving of being kicked.
    • 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. - 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler...
    • 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...
  2. Incurring kicking.
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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? - 1923, Rachel Crothers, “Act III”, in...

Origin

Etymology tree English kick Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English kickable From kick + -able.

Forms

more kickable most kickable

Derived

unkickable