English
kicker
From kick + -er.
Formed from kick + -er
Proto-Germanic *kaikaz ‘bent backwards’
Old Norse kikna ‘to sink at the knees’
Middle English kyken ‘to strike out with the foot’
English kick
Today it means
noun One who kicks.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “kicker”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / kicker