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/dˈɪki/ Listen

noun

Dicky, Dickey n.

A false detachable shirt front or bosom. (Also spelled dickie)

A gentleman's shirt collar. (Local, U. S.)

A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. (Slang)

(a)

A seat for the driver (In a carriage); called also dickey box or dickie seat.

(b)

A seat at the back for servants.

One of various animals; specif.:

(a)

A donkey.

(b)

Any small bird; called also dickeybird or dickey bird. (Colloq.)

(c)

The hedge sparrow. (Dial. Eng.)

(d)

The haddock.

dicky n. See dickey.

adjective

dicky adj. Faulty. (British informal)

Synonyms: dickey. "I've got this dicky heart"

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Etymology of 'Dicky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dicky" Quotes from Famous Books

... isn't divided," returned Katharine a little incoherently. "Some of us have so much more fun out of things than other people do. There's us; and then there's Bridget and that little pet of Polly's, Dicky what's-his-name. You know the one I mean. And then, just in our set, there's ever so much difference. Jessie and I have everything we want, and Jean has to pinch and scrimp; Jean is as strong as a bear, and Alan can't do anything at all, without being laid up to pay for it; Polly wails for a family ...

— Half a Dozen Girls • Anna Chapin Ray

... the golden pennies downtown and buy something, and Daddy Dorn said: "Of course, Dickie Dorn, for they are your golden pennies." So Dickie took two handfuls of the golden pennies downtown and bought a fine little pony with a little round stomach, and he bought a pretty pony cart and harness. Then Dicky drove the ...

— Friendly Fairies • Johnny Gruelle

... since he 'ad had the letter from 'is uncle, and 'e was up here at the "Cauliflower" with some more of us one night, when Dicky Weed, the tailor, turns to Bob Pretty and he ses, "Who's the old gentleman that's ...

— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs

... black-velvet slippers and a dark-blue walking-skirt, pulled on over the pink silk, tucking it up around the waist so that it did not sag from beneath the hem, squirmed into a black-velvet jacket with a false dicky made to emulate a blouse-front, and a blue-velvet hat hung with ...

— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... that valiant crook-backed prodigy, Dicky, your boy, that with his grumbling voice Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies? Or, 'mongst the rest, where is your darling Rutland? Look, York, I dipped this napkin in the blood That valiant Clifford, with ...

— The Critics Versus Shakspere - A Brief for the Defendant • Francis A. Smith

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