kex
nounUK /kɛks/
Etymology From Middle English kex. Origin unknown; but compare Welsh cecys (“hollow stalks”) and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”), apparently from the same source as Latin cicūta (“hemlock”).
- "I suppose you'll want a dish o' tay, or victuals of some sort, hey? […] I should be as dry as kex wi' travelling so far."1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
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Rare A dry husk or covering.
- On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix.1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 100–101: