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Word: nickey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...girls and women-sometimes as many as a dozen would be laid out on the truck, prostrated by the crush of O'Daniel handshakers. On Saturday night, after the polls closed, he threw a mammoth party in the Governor's Mansion to celebrate his impending victory. Son "Nickey Wickey" O'Daniel sang Old-Fashioned Love in My Heart; Texas Rose sang I Want to Be a Cowboy. On the Governor's lawn 2,500 citizens, including nursing mothers, children and adolescents trampled on flower beds and littered the grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Pappy Over Cyclone | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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