Meanings
dickey1
plural dickeys
- alternativeAlternative 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.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 134–1351 more example
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.
1883, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Two Old Lovers
dickey2
comparative dickier · superlative dickiest
- alternativeAlternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”).
Dickey3
alternative Dickie · alternative Dicky
- A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- A small city in LaMoure County, North Dakota.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater
nouna man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Dickey · proper noun
From Dick + -ey. The city in North Dakota was named in honor of the American lawyer George H. Dickey.
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Rhymes with dickey
Cite this entry
dickey. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dickey
“dickey.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dickey. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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