different between rick vs dicky

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k/

  Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English *rykke, from Old English hrycce (“rick, heap, pile”), cognate with Scots ruk (“rick”), Norwegian ruka (“rick, haystack”). Related also to Old English hr?ac (“rick, stack”), from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”). Further relations: Dutch rook, Norwegian rauk, Swedish rök, Icelandic hraukur.

Alternative forms

• ruck

Noun

rick (plural ricks)

1. Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.

   • There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows; […].
2. (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.

Derived terms

• rickburner

Translations

Verb

rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)

1. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.

Etymology 2

From earlier wrick, from Middle English wricken, wrikken (“to move back and forth”), probably from Middle Dutch *verwricken or Middle Low German vorwricken. Cognate with West Frisian wrikke, wrikje, Dutch wrikken, Low German wricken, German wricken, Danish vrikke, Swedish vricka.

Verb

rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)

1. To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.

Etymology 3

Abbreviated form from recruit.

Noun

rick (plural ricks)

1. (military, derogatory and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.

   No turning back now rick, you are the property of the US government now.

Anagrams

• crik

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