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dickey

/ˈdɪki/

proper noun

What it means

  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.

In a sentence

...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.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 134–135

Where it comes from

From Dickey.

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