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Dicky

name
/ˈdɪki/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from dek — “a cover”

Definitions

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Richard.

  2. A louse.

  3. Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.

  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.

    2. A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.

    3. A seat behind a carriage or early motor car, for a servant.

    4. A seat in a carriage, for the driver.

    5. The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.

      • Can you open the dicky for me?
      • Back and forth, back and forth, go our mothers on their secret missions, carrying their sinister freight in the dicky of our Morris Minor.

    6. the buttocks.

    7. A leather apron for a gig, etc.

    8. A small bird

      A small bird; a dicky-bird.

    9. An insignificant sound or thing

      An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.

      • 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.

    10. A pilot.

    11. A hedge sparrow.

    12. A donkey.

      • 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 […]

    13. A haddock.

    14. In bad condition

      In bad condition; weak, faulty, unreliable, doubtful, troublesome.

      • He had a dicky heart.
      • I've got a dicky tummy.
      • 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; […]

    15. A penis (dick).

    16. Like a dick, foolish or obnoxious.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA