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Dick, n.1|dɪk|
[A playful alteration of Ric-, contraction of Norman Fr. and Anglo-Norman Ricard, L. Ricardus = Richard.]
1. a. A familiar pet-form of the common Christian name Richard. Hence generically (like Jack) = fellow, lad, man, especially with alliterating adjectives, as desperate, dainty, dapper, dirty. Tom, Dick and Harry: any three (or more) representatives of the populace taken at random; see also Tom n. 1 a; clever Dick: a clever or smart person; usu. ironical: a ‘know-all’; also attrib.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 192 Desperate Dickes borowes now and then against the owners will all that ever he hath. 1581J. Studley Agamemnon 1, Whom with the dint of glittering sword Achilles durst not harme, Although his rash and desperat dickes the froward Knight did arme. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 464 Some Dick That smiles his cheeke in yeares, and knowes the trick To make my Lady laugh. 1589Marprel. Epit. E, The desperat Dicks, which you..affirm to be good bishops. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 227 A braue dapper Dicke, quaintly attired in veluet and sattin. 1822Galt Sir A. Wylie II. viii. 75 He's a gone dick, a dead man. 1864Standard 13 Dec. Review Slang Dict. (Farmer), [He] replied, ‘Oh yes, in the reign of queen dick’, which, on inquiry we found to be synonymous with ‘Never’, or ‘Tib's eve’. 1887in H. Baumann Londinismen 27/1 1891 Daily News 17 Nov. 2/4 The only bears still extant are the Tom, Dick, and Harry of the Bourses. 1895J. T. Clegg Works I. 238 There's olez tuthri cliverdicks to smile At owt they thinken rayther eaut-o'th'-road. 1933J. B. Priestley Wonder Hero vi. 222 One o' these clever Dicks from London bought it. 1957J. Braine Room at Top xxiv. 197 ‘Clever Dick,’ she said. ‘Think yer knows everythink, doncha?’ 1957Observer 29 Sept. 12/5 He wrote an article for the Radio Times, accompanied by a picture of two actors with funny hats and cutlasses, to disarm all clever⁓dick criticism. 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games iv. 154 There is bound to be some clever-dick who has hidden in a coal-hole and refuses to show himself.
b. Rarely applied to a female.
1814Watch-house II. i, It's all over wi' you, madam; ye're a gone dick: ye hear he's confessing.
2. dial. or local. (See quots.)
1847–78Halliwell, Dick, a kind of hard cheese. Suffolk. 1883Almondbury & Huddersfield Gloss., Dick, plain pudding. If with treacle sauce, treacle dick. Mod. ‘Spotted dick’, currant or raisin pudding.
3. slang.
a. A riding whip.
1873Slang Dict., Dick, a riding whip; gold-headed dick, one so ornamented. 1891Farmer Slang, Dick, 2. (coachman's) a riding whip.
b. The penis. coarse.
1891in Farmer Slang. 1929F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune I. v. 95 Dost turn thysen to t'wall, lad, so's us 'ns sha'n't see tha dick? 1934H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 68 That circumcised dick of his. 1963J. T. Story Something for Nothing ii. 42 At a time when sex was being introduced into the school curriculum as something entirely new, they were already playing ‘dicks and bums’ with boisterous enjoyment. 1969P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 79 You might have thought that..my dick would have been the last thing on my mind.
4. Phr. and Comb. (chiefly dial. or local.) Dick-a-dilver, the periwinkle. Dick-a-Tuesday, a will-o'-the-wisp. Dick-ass, a jack-ass. Dick-dunnock, a local name of the hedge-sparrow. dick-head coarse slang, (a) the glans penis; (b) transf., esp. a stupid person. Also long-tailed Dick, the long-tailed titmouse.
1636Sampson Vow Breaker (N.), Ghosts, hobgoblins, Will-with-wispe, or Dick-a-Tuesday. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dick-a-dilver, the herb periwinkle..It is so called from its rooting (delving) at every joint, and spreading itself far and wide. 1832P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 47 Found in the garden the nest of a ‘long-tailed Dick’, with 3 eggs. 1847–78Halliwell, Dickass, a jack-ass. North. Ibid., Dick-a-tuesday, the ignis fatuus. 1969L. Michaels Going Places 73 Tito screamed, ‘I tell her you got it, dick-head.’ 1972W. Labov in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 289 The originator will search for images that would be considered as disgusting as possible: ‘Your mother eat fried dick-heads.’ 1983A. Bleasdale Shop thy Neighbour xl. 141 But I lost that job, it was alright, I deserved to lose it, I was a dickhead—but haven't we all been at one time or another—haven't we all woken up the next mornin' an' gone ‘oh Jesus, did I do that’? |