dicky

plural dickies · alternative dickey · alternative dickie

1. colloquialA louse.
2. CockneyslangDicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
3. slangA detachable shirt front, collar or bib.

   Synonyms: tommy

4. datedslangA hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.
5. datedA 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.

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

6. datedA seat in a carriage, for the driver.
7. South AsiaThe luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.

   Can you open the dicky for me?

   1 more example

   Back and forth, back and forth, go our mothers on their secret missions, carrying their sinister freight in the dicky of our Morris Minor.

   1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 184

   Synonyms: boot, trunk

8. Indiacolloquialthe buttocks.

   Synonyms: 'tocks, arse, arse cheeks, ass, ass cheeks, back, backside, batty

9. historicalA leather apron for a gig, etc.
10. A small bird; a dicky-bird.
11. UKidiomaticAn insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.

    Oh, she landed at Heathrow all right, like you said, but since then your Miss Ranelagh seems to have vanished as effectively as my overdue promotion. Not used her credit card, her Internet account, her mobile phone. Nothing. Not a dicky.

    2013, Michael Dobbs, A Ghost at the Door

12. UKslanggovernmentA pilot.
13. UKdialectalA hedge sparrow.
14. UKdialectalA donkey.

    I've heard grandfather say that when Mr. Priest was at his best there was scores o' young gents as used to come to school as day-boys, 'cause there was no room for 'em to board; and they used to come on dickies […]

    1896, Augustus Jessopp, Random Roaming, and Other Papers, page 181

15. A haddock.

comparative dickier · superlative dickiest · alternative dickey

1. colloquialIn bad condition; weak, faulty, unreliable, doubtful, troublesome.

   He had a dicky heart.

   2 more examples

   I've got a dicky tummy.

   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 “all dicky” with him; […]

   1867, Edmund Yates, Broken to Harness: A Story of English Domestic Life, page 311

plural dickies

1. slangvulgarA penis (dick).

comparative dickier · superlative dickiest

1. informalvulgarLike a dick, foolish or obnoxious.

alternative Dickey · alternative Dickie

1. A diminutive of the male given name Richard.