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Definition: Dickey |
DickeyAdjective1. (British informal) faulty; "I've got this dicky heart"- John le Carre. Noun1. (British English) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater. 2. A man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dickey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
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Literature | Dickey or Dicky. A donkey; anciently called a Dick-ass, now termed Jack-ass. It is a term of endearment, as we call a pet bird a dicky-bird. The ass is called Dick-y (little Richard), Cuddy (little Cuthbert), Neddy (little Edward), Jack-ass, Moke or Mike, etc. Dickey. The rumble behind a carriage; also a leather apron, a child's bib, and a false shirt or front. All these are from the same root. (Dutch, dekken; German, decken; Anglo-Saxon, thecan; Latin, tego, to cover.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | DICKEY. A sham shirt. DICKEY. An ass. Roll your dickey; drive your ass. Also a seat for servants to sit behind a carriage, when their master drives. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: DickeySynonyms: dickey-seat (n), dickie (n), dickie-seat (n), dicky (n), dicky-seat (n), shirtfront (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dickey |
| Specialty definitions using "dickey": YASOS. (references) |
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Herbert Spencer Dickey | Adventures are an indication of inefficiency. Good explorers don't have them. |
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| "Dickey" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Dickey" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dickey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dickey | Last name | 10,000 | 1,246 |
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1. Dickey, ND (city, FIPS 19580) |
Expressions using "dickey": dickey bird ♦ dickey bow ♦ dickey box ♦ Dickey County ♦ dickey heart. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "dickey": dickey-bird, dickey-seat. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dickey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Zogëz (chicken, dicky, duck, ducky, nestling), Përparëse (apron, dicky, duster, pinafore, Pinner), Ndenjëse E Pasme E Zbërthyeshme Të Veturës (dicky), Ndenjëse E Karrocierit (dicky), I Pasigurt (chancy, crazy, dicky, disputable, doubtful, dubious, faithless, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, touch and go, tricksy, trustless, truthless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy), I Lëkundur (crazy, dicky, Dotty, hesitant, hesitating, shilly shally, tottering, tottery, undecided, vacillating), I Dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), Grykashkë (bib, dicky), Gjoks Këmishe I Heqshëm (dicky). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Птичка, Кекав, Място На Кочияша, Магаре (Neddy), Нестабилен, Нагръдник (Tucker), Финансово азклатен, "етско Лигавиче, Сгъваемо Столче, азклатен. (various references) | |
Czech | Riskantní (adventurous, chancy, dangerous, Dicey, dodgy, hazardous, precarious, risky, touch and go, unsound). (various references) | |
Danish | Dickey's fibre (Dickey fibres, Dickey suspensory ligament). (various references) | |
Dutch | ligament van Dickey (Dickey fibres, Dickey suspensory ligament). (various references) | |
French | fibres de Dickey (Dickey fibres, Dickey suspensory ligament). (various references) | |
German | Notsitz (foldaway seat, rumble seat, tip-up seat). (various references) | |
Greek | χιτώνιο Του Στήθουσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ַזית ַולצ", חתו ית, ײפור קט ". (various references) | |
Hungarian | kötény (apron, dicky, pinafore, placket), blúzpótló (dicky), csacsi (ass, ass's foal, burro, cuddy, dicky, geese, goose, jerusalem pony, moke, Neddy), csomagtartó (boot, carrier rack, dicky, luggage rack, luggage-rack, trunk), fütyi (dick, dicky, peter, willy), farok (dick, dicky, scut, tail, train), felnyitható hátsó pótülés (dicky), Gyenge (anaemic, anemic, crazy, decrepit, dicky, dim, extenuate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, inferior, infirm, light, low, meagre, mild, nerveless, palsied, reedy, scrannel, semi-invalid, sickly, slack, slender, slight, small voice, soft, weak, weakly), bak (buck, Capricorn, dickey-seat, dicky, horse, perch, trestle), Ingmell (bosom of a chemise, bosom of a shirt, dicky, shirt bosom, shirt front, shirtfront), ujjatlan mellényke (dicky), külön ingmell (dicky), kismadár (birdie, dickey-bird, dicky, peeper), kocsisülés (dickey-seat), madárka (dickey-bird, dicky), pöcs (dick, dicky, prick), plasztron (bosom of a chemise, bosom of a shirt, dicky, shirtfront), Rozoga (crazy, dicky, dilapidated, ramshackle, rattletrap, rickety, shaky, tumble down, tumble-down, wonky), szamár (asinine, ass, burro, dicky, donkey, goosey, goosey-gander, jerusalem pony, moke, nincompoop, ninny), hátsó inasülés (dicky). (various references) | |
Italian | Sparato (shirt front). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickeyday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | boléia (carriage box, coachbox, driver's seat), babadouro (bib, pinafore, pinny), babador (bib, napkin, pinafore, pinny). (various references) | |
Romanian | Locul şoferului, Loc Din Spate (pillion), Jabou (frill, jabot). (various references) | |
Russian | Прорезиненный Костюм, Пташка, Манишка, Ненадежный, Нездоровый, манишка (dicky, shirtfront), "етский Фартук, 'ставка, 'оротничок, Слабый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slab (dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), portikla (bib, dicky), nesiguran (dicky, diffident, dotty, doubtful, faltering, insecure, precarious, shaky, uncertain, uneasy, unsafe, unsound, unsure, waggly, wildcat, wonky), grudi (bosom, breast, bust, chest), bluza (blouse). (various references) | |
Spanish | pechera (apron, bosom, front, shirtfront). (various references) | |
Swedish | Utfällbart Säte I Baklucka På Bil (dicky), Skakis (dicky, jittery), Pippifågel (dicky), Löst Skjortbröst (dicky), I Dålig Kondis (dicky), Åsna (Neddy). (various references) | |
Thai | ผ้ากันเปื้อน (apron, sercviette). (various references) | |
Turkish | Yaka (collar, collaret, collarette, dicky, flange, neck), Sarsak (a dithering idiot, clumsy, dicky, doddering, doddery, jerky, palsied, rocky, shaky, tottering, tottery), Papyon (bow tie, dickey bow, dicky), Minik Kuş (birdie, dickey-bird, dicky), Hastalıklı (dicky, diseased, infirm, morbid, sickly, unwholesome, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly), Eşek (asinine, ass, cabbagehead, dicky, donkey, moke, Neddy), Þoför Mahalli, Önlük, Çürük. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Прогумований Костюм, Комірець, Манишка, 'ставка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | con lừa (dicky). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dickey": dickeys. (additional references) | |
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"Dickey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dackel, Darkey, decke, decken, dekey, dicka, dicken, dickery, dickety, dickeyi, dickity, Dicksee, dickwit, Dijck, dikce, dikey, dinkey, Dishley, Diskey, dixey, Docksey, Doskey, Duckek, duckery, ducreyi, Dukey, dykey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dickey" (pronounced di"kē) |
| 4 | d i" k ē | Dickie, dicky. |
| 3 | -i" k ē | Hickey, Mickey, picky, quickie, Rickey, sticky, tricky. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-k-y" | |
-1 letter: dicey, dicky, dikey. | |
-2 letters: cedi, deck, dice, dick, dike, dyke, iced, icky. | |
-3 letters: dey, die, dye, ice, ick, icy, key, kid, yid. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, id, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-k-y" | |
+1 letter: dickeys. | |
+2 letters: wickedly. | |
+3 letters: doohickey, physicked. | |
+4 letters: doohickeys, dyskinetic. | |
+5 letters: cockneyfied, piggybacked. | |
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