dickey

See also: Dickey

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɪki/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪki

Etymology 1

From Dickey.

Noun

dickey (plural dickeys)

  1. Alternative form of dicky.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 134–135:
      ...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.
    • 1883, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Two Old Lovers‎[1]:
      Every Sunday night at eight o'clock punctually the form of David Emmons, arrayed in his best clothes, with his stiff white dickey, and a nosegay in his buttonhole, was seen to advance up the road toward Maria Brewster's, as he had been seen to advance every Sunday night for the last twenty-five years, but that was all.

Etymology 2

Unknown; see the main entry.

Adjective

dickey (comparative dickier, superlative dickiest)

  1. Alternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”).
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.