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Hickock

hic·kock

uncommon

noun

1.

frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876)

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Origin

From a reduplicated variant of hic, hick (“to hiccup”), formed as a quasi-diminutive as though equivalent to hick + -ock.

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