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| Gender | Feminine |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | English, Swedish |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | “Little girl” |
Flicka is an English feminine hypocorism for different names. It is a Swedish word used in reference to a young girl.
The nickname is associated with Flicka, a fictional horse in a book trilogy published during the 1940s by American author Mary O’Hara about an American boy and his mustang horse Flicka. The books were adapted into a movie trilogy and a 1950s television series. The 2006 American film Flicka and its two sequels were loosely based on the previous books and films.
Flicka was also one of a set of identical triplets in Flicka, Ricka, Dicka, the English language translations of a series of Swedish children’s books by Swedish author/illustrator Maj Lindman that were published from the 1930s to the 1960s in the Anglosphere. The female triplets were called Rufsi, Tufsi, Tott in the original Swedish editions of the tales published during the 1920s in Sweden.
Nickname
- Felicity “Flicka” Huffman (born 1962), American actress
- Jessica ‘Flica” or “Flicka” Smith (born 1979), American woman who was a contestant on the American television series Survivor
- Frederica “Flicka” von Stade (born 1945), American semi-retired classical singer
Fiction
- Flicka, one of a set of identical triplets in the children’s book Flicka, Ricka, Dicka by Swedish author/illustrator Maj Lindman
- Flicka, a mustang horse in the 1941 novel My Friend Flicka and its two sequels, Thunderhead (1943) and Green Grass of Wyoming (1946) by American author Mary O'Hara
- Flicka, a horse in a series of film adaptations, My Friend Flicka (1943), Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945), and Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
- Flicka, a horse in the 1956-1957 television series My Friend Flicka
- Flicka, the horse in the 2006 American film Flicka and its sequels, Flicka 2 (2010) and Flicka: Country Pride (2012)
- Fredericka "Flicka" von Grüsse in the James Bond novels Never Send Flowers and SeaFire by John Gardner
References
- "Flicka's Farewell". 14 July 2010.
- "SAG Awards 2015: Williams H. Macy Explains Felicity Huffman as Flicka".
- "'Survivor' contestant seen back in town, keeping quiet". September 2006.
- "SAG Awards 2015: Williams H. Macy Explains Felicity Huffman as Flicka".
- "Not Like the Other (Published 2010)". 13 August 2010.