Dick

Definition: Dick

Dick

Noun

1. (informal) someone who is a detective.

2. Obscene terms for penis.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Dick" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a brave power".

Date "dick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dick

Safety

Watchdog, bandog; Cerberus; watchman, patrolman, policeman; cop, dick, fuzz, smokey, peeler, zarp; sentinel, sentry, scout; (warning); garrison; guardship.

Thief

Highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar.

Crosswords: Dick

Czech (Dick), German (big, bold, bulky, close, corpulent, fat, full, grossly, heavily, heavy, hefty, large, plump, stout, swollen, thick, thickly, turbid, turbidly).

Why don't you tell me my dick is as big as Stifler's (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg)

I heard Dick Rivers caught the two of you bowled up and going at it in the same room with poor Miss Ogletree dead as a doornail laid out on a gurney (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

I got a really small dick, it's pathetic (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

This man has no dick. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

Here you've been in therapy, you know, thinking you blew it with the greatest girl ever, and really it turns out that getting your dick stuck in your zipper was the best thing that ever happened to you. (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss)

'Till the thick thighs, dick rise when I skip by (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat)

From day one a dick rider (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo)

I got the Kryptonite, should I smack him with my dick and the mic (Party Up; performing artist: DMX)

Take a bullet with some dick and take this dope from this jet (The Next Episode; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

And my dick runs deep so deep so deep (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube)

Carry On Dick (1974)

Dick Turpin (1974)

Diamantendetektiv Dick Donald (1971)

The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971)

Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman (1968)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (Volume 2): We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (reference)

• Deadeye Dick (reference)

• Growing Up With Dick and Jane: Learning and Living the American Dream (reference)

• Moby Dick (reference)

• Ragged Dick Or, Street Life in New York With the Boot-Blacks (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Dick Berggrens Speedway Illustrated (reference)

• Dick Vinocurs Footprints (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection (reference)

• Classic Dick Tracy Movies (Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome/Dick Tracy vs. Cueball/Dick Tracy's Dilemma) (reference)

• Dick Tracy's Dilemma (reference)

• A Dick Francis Mysteries Duo (reference)

• Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome / Dick Tracy, Detective (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Satan's Kicking Yr Dick in (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Dick Tracy (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Coastal scene with native Americans at Port Dick on the Kenai Peninsula. Vancouver placed the Latitude as 59 11 North and Longitude as 150 12 West. In: "A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World" by Captain George Vancouver. Volume III, Plate II, page 150. Library Call Number G420 .V22 1798. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Deep Tow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Chief Scientists Dick Hey and Bob Tyce. Cruise to the propagating rift on the Galapagos Ridge. On R/V THOMAS WASHINGTON. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Bloody Dick SNOTEL site in Montana. NRCS snow surveys measure snow moisture to help predict stream flow in the spring. Credit: Unknown.

Dick Micha demonstrating gunsmithing to visitors at the NHOTIC. Credit: BLM Staff.

Vice President Dick Cheney. Credit: White House Photograph.

Black and white wash drawing of Harlequin Ducks by John H. Dick. As a world traveler and photographer, Mr. Dick illustrated several books about American birds. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

Quoth Hal to Dick, I know its true... / [John Collier]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Warning casual sex may be hazardous to your health. : My new warning label / Dick Locher. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photograph by Edward L. Wilson and W. Irving Adams, showing part of the U.S. Navy's exhibit at the exhibition, featuring a U.S. flag; Charles O. Cole's portrait of Dick Libby (see Photo # KN-582); models of drydocks, with a monitor in the one at left; heavy iron bars bent by the Boston Navy Yard's bending mill; and a monument made of wood from ships lost in the Norfolk-Hampton Roads area during the Civil War, including (from top to bottom): CSS Florida, USS Cumberland, USS Merrimack, USS Delaware, USS Columbia, USS Columbus, USS Pennsylvania, USS United States and USS Raritan. Credit: NAVY.

"Right Hand Salute! -- As the body of Lieutenant Commander Omar R. Ford, USN, one of 44 officers and men who lost their lives in USS Oriskany October 26 fire tragedy, is committed to the deep from Oriskany's flight deck during memorial services at sea in the Western Pacific, November 6, en route to San Diego, California. Fire-scarred Oriskany departed Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, for San Diego November 3." (quoted from the original caption released with this image) Note Oriskany's insignia on the light-colored flag, at right, and three destroyers steaming alongside. Nearest destroyer is USS Chevalier (DD-805). Next outboard is USS Gurke (DD-783). Photographed by JOC Dick Wood. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He was very much attached to me, was Dick.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

In late June, Misheck Mwanza, who worked at Dick Farm in Chinhoyi district, died from injuries suffered during an assault in May. (references)

Uganda

There also were no developments in the case in which Major Dick Bugingo, a commanding officer in the PPU, was summoned by the UHRC tribunal on charges that he tortured Sergeant Godfrey Mubiru in March 2000. There were no reports of any action taken against the responsible members of the police who beat or otherwise abused persons in the following cases from 2000: The September forcible dispersal of a Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) meeting in Gulu; the June beating of 11 Makerere University students; the April beating of Ahmed Washaki, an official of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC); and the March forcible dispersal of an unauthorized rally in Mbarara. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "dick": clever dick ♦ Dick Size War ♦ Dick test ♦ Dick Turpin ♦ hard dick ♦ Hopping Dick ♦ house dick ♦ King Dick wrench ♦ sleepy dick ♦ slippery dick ♦ spotted dick ♦ take one's dick that ♦ whistling Dick. Additional references.

Beginning with "dick": dick-doctor, dick-follower, dick-head, dick-heads, dick-idolator, dick-led, Dick-nixs, dick-rattling, dick-read, dick-shaped, dick-showing, dick-suck, dick-tionary, dick-wipe, dick-work.

Ending with "dick": Broke-dick, Bruce-dick, clever-dick.

Containing "dick": Clever-dick-nick.

Albanian

Detektiv (bloodhound, detective, gumshoe, plant, sleuth), Trap (booby, cockeyed, ditch, Dong, dope, duffer, dumbbell, ferry, float, moron, pontoon, prick, prune, raft, sap, sap-head, snare), Loqja (Dong, prick), Kar (Dong, prick), Hu (picket, piquet, pole, post, roost, stake), Budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قضيب الرجل (pecker), ‏غبي (asinine, dense, dim witted, drip, dull, dullard, empty headed, fathead, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, soppy, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, tomfool, twerp, uncivil, unintelligent, wooden), ‏شخص فتى, ‏بوليس سري (emissary, shadow, sleuth, snoop). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Пенис, Момък (Swain), Детектив (Jack), Големи Думи. (various references)

Czech

Dick, Detektiv (detective, sleuth), Èurák, Èmuchal. (various references)

Danish

Dick-toxin (Dick toxin), Dick-serum (Dick serum, Dick-Dochez serum), svensknoegle (King Dick wrench, monkey wrench, screw wrench with one adjustable jaw). (various references)

Dutch

Dick-toxine (Dick toxin), toxine van Dick (Dick toxin), serum van Dochez (Dick serum, Dick-Dochez serum), Engelse sleutel (monkey-wrench, shifting spanner), antitoxine van Dick (Dick serum, Dick-Dochez serum). (various references)

French

Détective, Queue (distillation residue), Jeune Homme, Homme, Faire Le Con, Cyclope, Bite. (various references)

German

Schwanz (caudal, dong, end, prick, rear, tail, tail end, trail). (various references)

Greek 

όυστικόσ Αστυφύλακασ, Τσουτσούνι, Ψωλή, ψωλή (pecker, penis, tool). (various references)

Hebrew 

וט ״וכבים, שמוק, זין (arms, male organ, weapon). (various references)

Hungarian

fasz (old avenger, pecker, prick, sucker). (various references)

Italian

Uccello (bird, fowl), cazzo (prick), Affermazione (affirmation, allegation, assertion, averment, claim, proposition, statement). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

白鯨 (Moby Dick, white whale). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はくげい (Moby Dick, white whale). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickday.(various references)

Portuguese

detetive (bloodhound, bustle, detective, ferret, plainclothes man), moço (boy, juvenile, kid, lad, laddie, sapling, young, young man, youthful), colega (classmate, colleague, companion, fellow, friend, mate, playmate), caralho (penis, prick). (various references)

Romanian

Detectiv (detective, ferret, G-man, tec), Pulã (Dong, prick), Agent De Poliţie (beagle, detective, nark, nose, policeman, shadow, slop, trap). (various references)

Russian 

Кожаный Передник, Канава, Хуй, дик, Сыщик. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

detektiv (detective, sleuth), penis (pecker, penis, prick). (various references)

Spanish

declaracion, polla, verga,pene., Polla (chick, pool, prick, pullet), Policía (bloodhound, bobby, constabulary, cop, fuzz, military force, officer, patrolman, peeler, police, police force, police officer, policeman, shadow). (various references)

Swedish

Detektiv (detective, plain clothes, plain-clothes, sleuth), Deckare (detective story, gumshoe, shamus, sleuth, sleuthhound, whodunit), Kuk (prick, tool). (various references)

Thai

นักสืบ (คำสแลง). (various references)

Turkish

Dedektif (bloodhound, detective, ferret, investigator, spotter), Penis (Dong, joystick, knob, pecker, penis, Peter, phallus, prick, rod, tool), Herif (blighter, bloke, bozo, bugger, Buster, cove, cuss, customer, dog, fellow, guy, Johnny, josser, mug, sod, stooge, varlet), Adam (bean, bird, bozo, Buster, chap, cookie, cooky, cuss, dog, employee, feller, fellow, fellow man, guy, Jack, joker, man, person), Çük (Dong, Peter). (various references)

Ukrainian

Хлюст, Хлопець (Jack, Mac), Шкіряний Фартух, Сищик (Pinkie). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thám tử (fuzz). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dick": dickcissel, dickcissels, dickens, dickenses, dicker, dickered, dickering, dickers, dickey, dickeys, dickie, dickier, dickies, dickiest, dicks, dicky, dickys. (additional references)

Words ending with "dick": benedick, medick, zaddick. (additional references)

Words containing "dick": benedicks, medicks. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ick, kid.

-2 letters: id.

+1 letter: dicks, dicky.

+2 letters: detick, dicker, dickey, dickie, dickys, duckie, kicked, licked, medick, nicked, picked, ricked, sicked, ticked, wicked.

+3 letters: bedtick, bricked, chinked, chirked, clicked, clinked, cricked, decking, derrick, deticks, dickens, dickers, dickeys, dickier, dickies, dieback, docking, dornick, duckier, duckies, ducking, duckpin, flicked, hoicked, medicks, nickled, nudnick, pickled, piddock, pricked, sickbed, sickled, skaldic, slicked, snicked, sticked, tickled, tricked, wricked, zaddick, zincked.