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In some senses, dicky is marked as slang, dated, vulgar, informal, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
dicky
/ˈdɪki/
noun 6adj 2name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
open
VERB + DICKY
called, got
DICKY + NOUN
heart, morris, tummy
PREP.
in, since
Definitions
name
1
A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
noun
1
A louse.
2
Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
3
A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
4
A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.
5
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
1
In bad condition; weak, faulty, unreliable, doubtful, troublesome.
He had a dicky heart.
I've got a dicky tummy.
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Idioms & Phrases
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...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
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Can you open the dicky for me?
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Back and forth, back and forth, go our mothers on their secret missions, carrying their sinister freight in the dicky of our Morris Minor.
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He had a dicky heart.
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I've got a dicky tummy.
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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 “a
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