Sc. [f. FIKE v. + -ERY.] Fidgetiness, fussiness; fuss.
1823. Galt, Entail, I. 306. ‘I canna understand,’ said he, ‘what for a’ this fykerie’s about a lump o’ yird.’
1833. Petticoat Tales, I. 330. ‘I couldna be fashed wi’ sic fikery.’
1850. Carlyle, in Froude, Life in London xviii. (1884), II. 51. Several times his fussiness and fikery have brought angry growlings out of me, and spurts of fierce impatience which he has taken more like an angel than a Welshman.
