i Register
In some senses, dicky is marked as slang, dated, vulgar, informal, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
name
A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
noun
A louse.
Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.
A seat behind a carriage or early motor car, for a servant.
...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.
adj
In bad condition; weak, faulty, unreliable, doubtful, troublesome.
He had a dicky heart.
I've got a dicky tummy.