dicky

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

dick=y

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun dicky has 2 senses

dicky(n = noun.artifact) dickey, dickey-seat, dickie, dickie-seat, dicky-seat - a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater; Array

is a kind of backseat

dicky(n = noun.artifact) dickey, dickie, shirtfront - a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt; Array

is a kind of insert, inset

is a part of shirt

Derived form adjective dicky₁

Adjective dicky has 1 sense

dicky(s = adj.all) dickey - (British informal) faulty; "I've got this dicky heart"

Derived form noun dicky₂

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

dicky, n. (also dickey) (pl. -ies or -eys) colloq.
1 a false shirt-front.
2 (in full dicky-bird) a child's word for a little bird.
3 Brit. a driver's seat in a carriage.
4 Brit. an extra folding seat at the back of a vehicle.
5 (in full dicky bow) Brit. a bow-tie.

dicky, adj. (dickier, dickiest) Brit. sl. unsound, likely to collapse or fail.

Etymology

19th c.: perh. f. 'as queer as Dick's hatband'

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