different between licky vs dicky

English

Etymology

lick +? -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

licky (comparative lickier, superlative lickiest)

1. Prone to licking.
   • 2003, Michael Wordsmiff, James Baggit and the Storyteller's Ring - Page 13

     He was a proper dog; a great, woolly, lolloping beast with huge paddy paws, a waggy tail and a very licky tongue.

   • 2007, Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects : True Stories - Page 25

     As soon as the dog was safely enclosed within the area of our legs, it became happy and licky. He ran to one then the other. Then he sat on the floor and watched us watching him.

See also

• licky-licky

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