different between kickshaw vs bonehead

English

From Middle French quelque chose (“something”).

kickshaw (plural kickshaws)

A dainty or delicacy.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts, page 39:
  Allow me now to recommend this dish— / A simple kickshaw by your Persian cook, / Such as is served at the great King’s second table.
- 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
  The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.
A trinket or gewgaw.

bone +? head

bonehead (plural boneheads)

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