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▪ I. dicky, dickey, n. colloq., slang, and dial.|ˈdɪkɪ|
Also dickie.
[The senses here included may belong to two or more words of distinct origin. Some of them are evidently applications of Dicky, dim. of Dick (cf. Tommy, Willy, Bobby, etc.); another group is probably closely related to dick n.2; of others the relationship is obscure.
Many other applications of ‘dicky’ may be found in the dialect and slang dictionaries.]
I. As applied to persons.
1. Naut. (See quot.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Dickey, an officer acting in commission.
II. As a name applied to animals.
2. A donkey; properly, a he-ass.
First noted in East Anglia and Essex, now widely known.
1793Gentl. Mag. ii. 1083 A Donky, or a Dicky. An ass. Essex and Suffolk. 1818Moore Fudge Fam. Paris ii. 25 When gravely sitting Upon my dickey. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dicky-ass, a male ass; the female being usually called a Jenny ass, or a Betty ass. 1876E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 388 About Sancho's stolen Dicky.
attrib.1801Bloomfield Rural T., Richard & Kate (1802) 8 Time to begin the Dicky Races, More fam'd for laughter than for speed. 1883Jessopp in 19th Cent. Oct. 602 Ridin' in a dickey cart's enow for him and me.
3. A small bird (also dicky-bird).
a. A tame (caged) bird.
b. dial. The hedge-sparrow.
1851Florist Nov., There was..dicky's cage on its old nail. 1868Daily Tel. 29 May, We should not like to trust a canary bird near the picture. Mr. Radford's monk would surely spring from the canvas..and crunch the dickey to splinters. 1878Cumbld. Gloss., Dickey, the hedge-sparrow, Accentor modularis. 1881Black Beautiful Wretch xviii. (Farmer), ‘The dicky-laggers are after them too.’ ‘The what?’ ‘The bird-catchers, Miss.’ 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 29 Hedge Sparrow..Dickie (Lancashire)..Blue dickie (Renfrew). 1887Kentish Gloss., Dicky⁓hedge-poker, a hedge-sparrow. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Dicky⁓dunnock, the hedge-sparrow.
c. See dicky-bird, dickey-bird 2.
III. As a name of articles of clothing: cf. dick n.2
†4. An under petticoat. Obs.
1753Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 231 With fringes of knotting your Dickey cabod [? cabob], On slippers of velvet, set gold a-la-daube. 1787Minor I. 99 Of all her splendid apparel not a wreck remained..save her flannel dicky. 1800Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ld. Auckland's Tri. Wks. 1812 IV. 311 The hips ashamed forsooth to wear a dicky. 1847–78Halliwell, Dicky, a woman's under-petticoat.
†5. A worn-out shirt. (Obs. slang.)
1781G. Parker View of Society I. 82 note (Farmer), Dickey, cant for a worn-out shirt.
6. A detached shirt-front.
1811Lex. Balatronicum, Dickey, a sham shirt. 1843Thackeray Crit. Rev. Wks. 1886 XXIII. 29 If not a shirt-collar at least a false collar, or by possibility a dicky. 1848― Bk. Snobs xxvii, Wretched Beaux..who sport a lace dickey. 1886Baring-Gould Court Royal I. vi. 87 Paper collars, cuffs, and dickies. 1889J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums iii, ‘Come awa doon..an' put on a clean dickey.’
7. A shirt collar. (New England.)
1858Holland Titcomb's Lett. iii. 36 A beautiful cravat, sustaining a faultless dicky. 1864Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 283. 1864 Thoreau Cape Cod vi. (1894) 130 Cockles..looking..like a flaring dickey made of sand-paper. 1887M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance, etc. (1891) 50 David Emmens, arrayed in his best clothes, with his stiff white dickey.
8. A covering worn to protect the dress or upper part of it during work, etc.; variously applied (according to time and place) to
a. A leather apron or pinafore.
b. A child's bib.
c. A ‘slop’ or loose over-jacket of coarse linen coming down to the waist, worn by workmen in the north.d. An oil-skin suit.
1847–78Halliwell, Dicky..a common leather apron. 1879Cumbld. Gloss. Suppl., Dicky, a short upper garment of coarse linen till lately worn by working men. 1883Mrs C. Garnett in Sunday Mag. Dec. 751/2 To the office..we walked to be arrayed in our dickies.
IV. In other applications.
9. a. The seat in a carriage on which the driver sits. (Also dicky-box.) b. A seat at the back of a carriage for servants, etc., or of a mail-coach for the guard.
1801Gabrielli Myst. Husb. IV. 260 The farmer..came down upon the dicky in front of the chaise, to save a horse. 1803Times 17 Jan., Hammer-cloths, except on state occasions, are quite out of date, and the dickey-box is following their example. 1803Lit. Jrnl. in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1804) VII. 5 The style which has changed a tub into a chariot, and a coach-box into a dicky. 1806T. S. Surr Wint. in Lond. (ed. 3) II. 210 She..ventured to introduce a plain black leather chair for the driver, which was called a dicky. 1812Ann. Reg. 131 The guard travelled by the side of the coachman on the box, and on returning to the dickey he discovered the robbery. 1823Byron Juan xiii. xlvii, The valet mounts the dickey. 1837Dickens Pickw. xlvi, A hackney cabriolet..three people were squeezed into it besides the driver, who sat..in his own particular little dickey at the side. 1862Sala Seven Sons I. iv. 72 He had seen him..in the dickey of a phaeton. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. vi. 185 We carried our courier behind us in the dickey with Anne.
c. An extra seat at the back of a two-seater motor car which can be closed down when not in use.
1912Motor Manual (ed. 14) iv. 139 On most two-seaters a light, detachable, rear single or dickey seat can be arranged for if specially desired. 1926W. Deeping Sorrell & Son v, I'll take it round to a garage for you, sir. Luggage in the dicky?
d. In other extended uses.
1907Masefield Tarpaulin Muster iv. 57, I..went to the leadsman's dicky, or little projecting platform, on the starboard side. a1922T. Burt Autobiogr. (1924) 94 The hauling-engine, called the ‘dickey’, was at the surface.
10. Comb.: dicky-box (see 9 a); dicky-daisy (local), a nursery name for the common daisy (Bellis perennis), also applied to other wild flowers; dicky dilver, a local name of the periwinkle (Britten & Holl.) = dick-a-dilver (Dick n.1); Dicky Sam [understood to be a corruption of Dick o'Sam's, an example of the Lancashire form of patronymic], a nickname for a Liverpool man.
1870Athenæum 10 Sept., We cannot even guess why a Liverpool man is called a Dickey Sam. 1884Book Lore Dec. 27 (Farmer), The natives of Liverpool call themselves, or are called by others, Dicky Sams.
Add:[III.] [7.] b. dicky bow, a bow-tie.
1977Sounds 9 July 34/4 He's even in a dickie bow and tuxedo, for Chrissakes! 1979Observer 28 Jan. 9/2 The odds, however, would be completely revised if, as rumoured, Robin Day takes off his dickey-bow and leaps into the fray. 1987New Musical Express 9 May 21/3 The other thing about bouncers is that, because they've got dickie bows and the suits..you think they're even meaner.
▸ S. Asian. The luggage compartment of a motor vehicle, esp. a car.
1964Times 5 Aug. 10/6 Put the sahib and his luggage in the dicky. 1988B. Sidhwa Ice-candy-man xxii. 171 Get a look in the car's dicky some-time..because it's full of petrol cans. 1996T. N. Murari Steps from Paradise 110 We climbed out of the car and made Paul open the dicky so that Anjali could take out the pullovers. 2006Hindustan Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. When the police searched the dickey of his scooter, they found out several fake stamp papers.
▪ II. ˈdicky, dickey, a. slang or colloq.
[Etymol. not ascertained.]
Of inferior quality, sorry, poor; in bad condition, unsound, shaky, ‘queer’.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Dicky..very bad or paltry; any thing of an inferior quality, is said to be a dicky concern. a1845Hood Conveyancing iv, At last to find Your dinner is all dickey. 1883Standard 8 Jan. 2/4 Without doubt Iroquois has been very ‘dickey’ on his pins. 1889D. C. Murray Danger. Catspaw 24 The very honestest tradesman..must run the risk of meeting very dicky people now and then. 1894Sir J. D. Astley My Life I. 312 Poor ‘Curly’ was uncommon dicky for several days from concussion of the brain.
b. all dicky with: ‘all up’ or ‘all over’ with.
1810Morning Post 26 June in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1811) XIV. 278 At one time he thought it was all dicky with Sir Francis. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg., Bros. Birchington xl, 'Tis all dickey with poor Father Dick—he's no more! 1880Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve xxxvi. 490 ‘Ah, poor old Zebedee!..'tis all dickey with he.’
c. Comb., as dicky-legged.
1894Sir J. D. Astley My Life II. 2 The trainer of some dicky-legged racer. |