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Dickey

Definition: Dickey

Dickey

Adjective

1. (British informal) faulty; "I've got this dicky heart"- John le Carre.

Noun

1. (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)


Specialty Definition: Dickey

DomainDefinition

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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Specialty Definition: Dickey, North Dakota

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Dickey is a city located in LaMoure County, North Dakota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 57.

Geography


Dickey is located at 46°32'11" North, 98°28'11" West (46.536315, -98.469659)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 57 people, 26 households, and 12 families residing in the city. The population density is 100.0/km² (260.8/mi²). There are 31 housing units at an average density of 54.4/km² (141.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 100.00% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 26 households out of which 26.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.5% are married couples living together, 3.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 53.8% are non-families. 53.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 30.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.19 and the average family size is 3.50. In the city the population is spread out with 17.5% under the age of 18, 14.0% from 18 to 24, 21.1% from 25 to 44, 29.8% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 119.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 104.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $18,500, and the median income for a family is $23,750. Males have a median income of $28,333 versus $11,250 for females. The per capita income for the city is $10,547. 39.0% of the population and 50.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 16.7% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dickey, North Dakota."

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Synonyms: Dickey

Synonyms: dickey-seat (n), dickie (n), dickie-seat (n), dicky (n), dicky-seat (n), shirtfront (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dickey

Specialty definitions using "dickey": YASOS. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dickey

DomainTitle

Books

  • All Clear: Poems (The James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series) (reference)

  • Error and Angels: Poems (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series) (reference)

  • Fire In The Wind: The Life of Dickey Chapelle (reference)

  • Green: Poems (The James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series) (reference)

  • Portrait in a Spoon: Poems (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series) (reference)

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Periodicals

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Familiar Quotations: Dickey

AuthorQuotation

Herbert Spencer Dickey

Adventures are an indication of inefficiency. Good explorers don't have them.

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Usage Frequency: Dickey

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)60%3202,518
Noun (singular)40%2245,945
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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Name Usage Frequency: Dickey

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DickeyLast name10,0001,246
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Cities: Dickey


1. Dickey, ND (city, FIPS 19580)
Location: 46.53650 N, 98.46742 W
Population (1990): 53 (31 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 58431
Country: USA

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Expressions: Dickey

Expressions using "dickey": dickey bird dickey bow dickey box Dickey County dickey heart. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "dickey": dickey-bird, dickey-seat.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dickey

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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246

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7

dickey scoggin

96

lynn dickey

6

dickey betts

83

book dickey eric jerome

6

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64

deliverance dickey james

5

dickey betts band

38

dickey pants

5

james dickey

35

dickey scroggins

5

dickey scoggins

33

dickey ride

5

lucinda dickey

22

dickey matthew

5

john dickey

19

clothing dickey

4

dickey lee

17

center dickey part scoggin

4

dickey jerome

15

dickey part scoggin

4

eric dickey

11

dickey north dakota

4

bill dickey

10

biography dickey eric jerome

4

dickey ken

10

by dickey eric jerome other woman

4

dickey great southern betts

10

dickey jerry motor

4

dickey harness

9

dickey lake

4

chevrolet dickey scoggin

9

clothes dickey

4

dickey eric jerome other woman

8

dickey simpkins

3

dickey scroggin

7

dickey scogin

3

dickey james poem

7

book by dickey eric jerome

3
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Modern Translation: Dickey

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dickey

Derivations

Words beginning with "dickey": dickeys. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Dickey"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dickey" (pronounced di"kē)
4d i" k ēDickie, dicky.
3-i" k ēHickey, Mickey, picky, quickie, Rickey, sticky, tricky.

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Anagrams: Dickey

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Cities
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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