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noun

Dicky, Dickey n.

A false detachable shirt front or bosom. (Also spelled dickie)

A gentleman's shirt collar. (Local, U. S.)

A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. (Slang)

(a)

A seat for the driver (In a carriage); called also dickey box or dickie seat.

(b)

A seat at the back for servants.

One of various animals; specif.:

(a)

A donkey.

(b)

Any small bird; called also dickeybird or dickey bird. (Colloq.)

(c)

The hedge sparrow. (Dial. Eng.)

(d)

The haddock.

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Etymology of 'Dickey'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dickey" Quotes from Famous Books

... receive you; very likely she would exclaim, "This is a pleasant surprise!" though she has seen you coming up the avenue and has just had time to whip the dustcloths off the chairs, and to warn Alick, David and James, that they had better not dare come in to see you before they have put on a dickey. Nor is this the room in which you would dine in solemn grandeur if invited to drop in and take pot-luck, which is how the Wylies invite, it being a family weakness to pretend that they sit down in the dining-room daily. It is the real living-room of the house, where Alick, who will never ...

— What Every Woman Knows • James M. Barrie

... in the South that I want to try them. There's one shape that makes a splendid dipper when it's dried and you cut a hole in it; and there's another kind just the size of a hen's egg that I want for nest eggs for Dickey's hens; and there's the loofa full of fibre that you can use for a bath sponge; and there's a pear-shaped one striped green and yellow that Mother likes for a darning ball; and there's a sweet smelling one that is as fragrant as possible in your handkerchief case. There are some ...

— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith

... refused—not that I harbour any grudge against lobsters as a class, but because I object to being dictated to by a buccaneer with flat feet, who wears a soiled dickey instead of a shirt, and who is only waiting for a chance to overcharge me or short-change me, or give me bad money, or something. If every other form of provender had failed them the populace of Paris could have subsisted very ...

— Eating in Two or Three Languages • Irvin S. Cobb

... own red tie and dirty collar?" young Clarkson asked, indignantly. "What price your eight and sixpenny trousers, eh, with the blue stripe and the grease stains? What about the sham diamond stud in your dickey, and your three inches of pinned on cuff? Fancy your appearance, perhaps! Why, I wouldn't walk the streets ...

— The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... no place south of Port Deposit could they get any one to assist them in handling the corpse). By this time the affair had created a great excitement, both in Chester county and the City of Baltimore. Rev. John M. Dickey, Hon. Henry S. Evans, then a member of the Senate. Brinton Darlington, then Sheriff of Chester county, and very many of the leading men took a deep interest in the matter; we all did our part. The Society of Friends in Baltimore took the matter in hand, and many other worthy ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

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