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English

Etymology

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Noun

dickty (plural dickties)

1. (African-American Vernacular) An upper-class black.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?ki/

Etymology 1

From dick +? -y (diminutive suffix).

• In cover/apron senses: perhaps from English dialect dick (“leather apron”) +? -y; perhaps from Dutch dek (“a cover”).

Alternative forms

• dickey
• dickie (noun only)

Noun

dicky (plural dickies)

1. (colloquial) A louse.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
3. A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
4. (slang, dated) A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.
5. (dated) A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.
6. (dated) A seat in a carriage, for the driver.
7. (India) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.

   Synonyms: (Britain) boot, (US) trunk

8. (historical) A leather apron for a gig, etc.
9. A small bird; a dicky-bird.
10. (idiomatic, Britain, in negative constructions) An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.
11. (Britain, military slang) A pilot.
12. (Britain, dialect) A hedge sparrow.
13. (Britain, dialect) A donkey.
14. A haddock.

Derived terms

• dicky bow

Adjective

dicky (comparative dickier, superlative dickiest)

1. (colloquial) doubtful, troublesome; in poor condition

   He had a dicky heart.

   • 1867, Edmund Yates, Broken to Harness: A Story of English Domestic Life (page 311)

     Ribald boys stuck the red-covered books of domestic household expenditure which they carried into their breasts, and swaggered by with heads erect; others openly expressed their opinion that it was “all dicky” with him; […]

Etymology 2

From dick +? -y.

Adjective

dicky (comparative dickier, superlative dickiest)

1. (informal, vulgar) like a dick, foolish or obnoxious

Anagrams

• ICYDK