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dickey en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Dickey.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dicky.
    alt of dicky
    • ...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. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 134–135:
    • 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. 1883, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Two Old Lovers:

Forms

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dickeys Number=Plur lexicographic

dickey en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

Unknown; see the main entry.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”).
    alt of dicky

Forms

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dickiest Degree=Sup lexicographic
dickier Degree=Cmp lexicographic