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dicky
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)
- (colloquial) A louse.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
- A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
- (slang, dated) A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.
- (dated) A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.
- (dated) A seat in a carriage, for the driver.
- (India) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
- Synonyms: (Britain) boot, (US) trunk
- (historical) A leather apron for a gig, etc.
- A small bird; a dicky-bird.
- (idiomatic, Britain, in negative constructions) An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.
- (Britain, military slang) A pilot.
- (Britain, dialect) A hedge sparrow.
- (Britain, dialect) A donkey.
- A haddock.
Derived terms
- dicky bow
Adjective
dicky (comparative dickier, superlative dickiest)
- (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)
- (informal, vulgar) like a dick, foolish or obnoxious
Anagrams
- ICYDK
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dickie
English
Alternative forms
- dicky
- dickey
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?ki
Noun
dickie (plural dickies)
- Alternative form of dicky
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