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dickish en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈdɪkɪʃ/

Etymology

From dick + -ish.

Meanings

  1. (US, colloquial, derogatory, vulgar) Characteristic of a dick (a contemptible person); offensively unpleasant and vexatious.
    • AZG has fallen in my eyes into the same category as that of Clayton Cramer, Artemus Ward, and the various passing idiots. i will not answer his posts unless he insults me personally, as i think if we all ignore him he will go away. even if we DON'T all ignore him, i don't want to be responsible for keeping him around... (although it is sexist of me to think AZG is a him. some women are that dickish and stupid after all...) 1992 February 14, Ailsa Murphy, “Re: Sex & paganism (was Re: reply)”, in alt.pagan (Usenet), retrieved 04 Feb 2018, message-ID <MAINE.92045.093550IO81409>:
    • So basically, if any administrative person wanted to be dickish about it, they could take "diciplinary^([sic]) action" it they decided that the presence of a nude body was disruptive (which, unfortunatly,^([sic]) is normally the case). 1992 March 31, Michael Wellck, “Re: College Campus Nudity”, in rec.nude (Usenet), retrieved 04 Feb 2018, message-ID <darkstar.31711>:
    • I get so annoyed with his dickish behavior.

Forms

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most dickish Degree=Sup lexicographic
more dickish Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

dickishly · dickishness