English
kickwriting
From kick + writing.
Proto-Germanic *kaikaz ‘bent backwards’
Old Norse kikna ‘to sink at the knees’
Middle English kyken ‘to strike out with the foot’
English kick
Proto-Germanic *wrītaną ‘to scratch’
Proto-West Germanic *wrītan ‘to scratch’
Old English wrītan ‘to write’
Old English wrīting
Middle English writing
English writing
The story
Coined by Jack Kerouac in a letter to Neal Cassady, describing Cassady's writing style.
Today it means
noun A frenzied, first-person style of writing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / kickwriting