[-ING2.] That kicks, in senses of the verb; also in colloq. phr. alive and kicking.
1552. Huloet, Kyckynge horse.
c. 1610. Women Saints, 25. The wanton or kicking flesh of yong maydes, she would represse with often or double fastings.
1797. Burke, Regic. Peace, iii. Wks. VIII. 272. The Turk … gave him two or three lusty kicks…. Our traveller … begged the kicking Mussulman ‘to accept his perfect assurances of high consideration.’
1860. [F. W. Robinson], Grandmother’s Money, I. 124. So I started off to Stamford Street, just to shew that I was alive and kicking.
1888. Daily News, 5 July, 5/2. He says that good batsmen to-day cannot play on a rough kicking wicket.
1890. Boston (Mass.) Jrnl., 20 Feb., 2/2. A kicking Democratic Senator in Ohio threatens to upset the … apportionment scheme.
