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Dicky
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- 1 In bad condition; weak, faulty, unreliable, doubtful, troublesome. colloquial
"He had a dicky heart."
- 2 Like a dick, foolish or obnoxious. informal, vulgar
- 1 (British informal) faulty wordnet
- 1 A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
- 1 A louse. colloquial
- 2 A penis (dick). slang, vulgar
- 3 a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt wordnet
- 4 Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. Cockney, slang
- 5 a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater wordnet
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- 6 A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
- 7 A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat. dated, slang
- 8 A seat behind a carriage or early motor car, for a servant. dated
"...and she was just in time to see Mr. Boyne Sillery hand her aunt into a carriage, jump in himself, when it drove off with a rapidity which scarcely allowed her to observe that a large imperial was on the top, and her aunt's servant, with a huge bandbox, on the dickey."
- 9 A seat in a carriage, for the driver. dated
- 10 The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car. South-Asia
"Can you open the dicky for me?"
- 11 the buttocks. India, colloquial
- 12 A leather apron for a gig, etc. historical
- 13 A small bird; a dicky-bird.
- 14 An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird. UK, idiomatic
"Oh, she landed at Heathrow all right, like you said, but since then your Miss Ranelagh seems to have vanished as effectively as my overdue promotion. Not used her credit card, her Internet account, her mobile phone. Nothing. Not a dicky."
- 15 A pilot. UK, slang
- 16 A hedge sparrow. UK, dialectal
- 17 A donkey. UK, dialectal
"I've heard grandfather say that when Mr. Priest was at his best there was scores o' young gents as used to come to school as day-boys, 'cause there was no room for 'em to board; and they used to come on dickies […]"
- 18 A haddock.
Etymology
From Dick + -y.
From Dicky, pet form of Richard. * In cover/apron senses: perhaps from English dialect dick (“leather apron”) + -y; perhaps from Dutch dek (“a cover”).
Unknown. Perhaps a use of Dicky, hypocoristic form of Dick, perhaps playing on its resemblance to tricky, sticky, or other similar-sounding words. Alternatively, perhaps an alteration of dickens.
From dick + -y (diminutive suffix), apparently originally punningly after Etymology 1.
From dick + -y (adjectival suffix).
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