Definition of "kickable"
kickable
adjective
comparative more kickable, superlative most kickable
Capable or deserving of being kicked.
Quotations
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 of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], pages 24–25
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 bearing.
1842, Alexander Campbell, “Kickable People”, in Sketches of Life and Character, page 10
(describing a behaviour or trait) Incurring kicking.
Quotations
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 to kick him rising strong within him? […] Petty tyranny is also eminently kickable.
1842, Alexander Campbell, “Kickable People”, in Sketches of Life and Character, page 11
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 kickable kind.
1860, Augustus Mayhew, “The Finest Girl in Bloomsbury. A Tale of Ambitious Love. [serial novel, Chapter IX: Mrs. Ickle's Triumph]”, in The Welcome Guest, London: Houlston and Wright, page 464