dickey

Definitions

noun

1

Alternative form of dicky.

...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.

Every Sunday night at eight o'clock punctually the form of David Emmons, arrayed in his best clothes, with his stiff white dickey, and a nosegay in his buttonhole, was seen to advance up the road toward Maria Brewster's, as he had been seen to advance every Sunday night for the last twenty-five years, but that was all.

adj

1

Alternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”).

name

1

A diminutive of the male given name Richard.

2

A surname originating as a patronymic.

3

A small city in LaMoure County, North Dakota.

Collocations

2

ADJ.

stiff, white

DICKEY + NOUN

nosegay

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the

noun — a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seate

dickie
dicky
dickey-seat
dickie-seat
dicky-seat

adjective — (British informal) faulty

dicky

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

2

01

...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 o

Wiktionary

02

Every Sunday night at eight o'clock punctually the form of David Emmons, arrayed in his best clothes, with his stiff white dickey, and a nosegay in his buttonhole, was seen to advance up the road towa