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▪ I. † dicken Obs. or dial. Some water-bird.
1579J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. xiv. 26 Snipe, Godwipe, Dicken, Poppel, Bitter, Hearon white and gray. ▪ II. dicken, dickin, int. Austral. and N.Z. slang.|ˈdɪkən| Also dickon, dikkon. [var. dickens.] An interjectional exclamation expressing disgust or disbelief: come off it!, cut it out! Also const. on.
1894Bulletin (Sydney) 5 May 13/3 ‘And did yer stouch him back?’ ‘No.’ ‘Dicken!’ ‘Swelp me.’ 1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands v. 53 ‘Well, what price goin' inter trainin' fer er livin' skelington?’ ‘Dicken! Skeletons is low.’ Ibid. viii. 98 To all iv which ther murmur is dickin. 1918Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 10 Apr. 101 ‘Say, Kiwi, some coot told me you were a wingless bird.’ ‘Dicken, Yank, yer gotter have arms when there's a war on.’ 1937N. Marsh Vintage Murder xxi. 238 Aw dikkon, Mr. Alleyn... I suppose it's N.Z. digger slang ‘Dikkon’. It's the same as if you'd say ‘Come off it’. Used to hear it on the Peninsula. ‘Aw dikkon, dig.’ 1949D. M. Davin Roads from Home iii. iii. 237 Dicken on that for a joke. 1950Evening Post (Wellington) 6 Nov. 8/2 The accused said, ‘Murder..dicken on that, me murder anyone!’ 1970N.Z. Listener 12 Oct. 13/5 ‘You don't lie and cheat the way my mother does.’ ‘Ah, dicken.’ |