dickn.1
/dɪk/, U.S. /dɪk/ 1. Usually with capital initial.† b. In the context of sexual innuendo: a male sexual partner. Cf. the much later sense 4b. Obsolete.
a. A pet form of the male forename, Richard, used as a generic name for a man or boy, esp. one considered ordinary or unexceptional. Often in collocation with other male forenames, esp. (now chiefly) in Tom, Dick, or Harry at Tom n.1 Phrases 1b. In early use often with alliterative adjectives.clever Dick: see clever adj. and adv. Compounds. in the reign of Queen Dick: see Queen Dick n. 1. as —— as Dick's hatband: see hatband n. Phrases.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun]
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rinkeOE
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manOE
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scout1912
head1913
beezer1914
jeff1917
pisser1918
bimbo1919
bozo1920
gee1921
mush1936
rye mush1936
basher1942
okie1943
mugger1945
cat1946
ou1949
tess1952
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bra1974
muzhik1993
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 101 Desperate Dickes borowes nowe and then againste the owners wille, all that euer he hathe.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D A braue dapper Dicke, quaintly attired in veluet and Sattin.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 464 Some Dick That smyles, his cheeke in yeeres, and knowes the trick To make my Lady laugh. View more context for this quotation
1622 J. Taylor Sir Gregory Nonsence sig. B5v I neither care what Tom, or Iacke, or Dick sed.
1778 W. Kenrick Lady of Manor ii. 31 At romps with Robin, Tom, or Dick, One fearful is of danger.
1866 Civil Service Gaz. 7 July 429/1 If Dick goes for a soldier and Jack for a soldier, let us leave a few openings in the Customs, the Excise, the Post Office, &c., for other Dicks and Jacks.
1889 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly 498/1 I always hold him up as a model to John or Jack or Dick.
1902 Punch 3 Sept. 149 You're safe to wager That every Dick or Tom who's not A colonel is a major.
2004 Webactive 14 Oct. 48/1 These days it's easy for any Tom, Dick or Harriet to get themselves a website and post it up for everyone to see.
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1654 New Brawle 4 You can..lie like a logge by me all Night, and when you rise, turn your back-side towards me, as though I should kiss that: out thou unnaturall Knave thou; thou feeble dick thou.
1691 Mundus Foppensis 13 Who..had not rather kiss the Breeches of Twenty Women, than to lick The Bristles of one Male dear Dick?
1707 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) II. 203 For when Country Gillians do play with their Dicks, Then London must Father their Bastards.
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a. skim dick n. regional (now somewhat rare and chiefly historical) a hard dry cheese made from skimmed milk; (sometimes also) skimmed milk; also occasionally in skimmed dick.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > varieties of cheese
goat cheeseOE
green cheesec1390
rowen cheesea1425
bred-cheesec1440
hard cheesec1470
ruen cheese1510
parmesan1538
spermyse1542
angelot1573
cow-cheese1583
goat's cheese1588
Cheshire Cheese1597
eddish-cheese1615
nettle cheese1615
aftermath cheese1631
marsolini1636
Suffolk cheese1636
Cheddar cheesea1661
rowen1673
parmigianoa1684
raw-milk cheesea1687
fleet cheese1688
sage-cheese1714
Rhode Island cheese1733
Stilton cheese1736
Roquefort cheese1762
American cheese1763
fodder cheese1784
Old Peg1785
blue cheese1787
Dunlop cheese1793
Wiltshire1794
Gloucester1802
Gruyère1802
Neufchâtel1814
Limburger cheese1817
Dunlop1818
fog cheese1822
Swiss cheese1822
Suffolk thumpa1825
Stilton1826
skim dick1827
stracchino cheese1832
Blue Vinney1836
Edam1836
Schabzieger1837
sapsago1846
Munster1858
mysost1861
napkin cheese1865
provolone1865
Roquefort1867
Suffolk bang1867
Leicester1874
Brie1876
Camembert1878
Gorgonzola1878
Leicester cheese1880
Port Salut1881
Wensleydale1881
Gouda1885
primost1889
Cantal1890
Suisse1891
bondon1894
Petit Suisse1895
Gervais1896
Lancashire1896
Pont l'Évêque1896
reggiano1896
Romano1897
fontina1898
Caerphilly cheese1901
Derby cheese1902
Emmental1902
Liptauer1902
farmer cheese1904
robiola1907
gjetost1908
reblochon1908
scamorza1908
Cabrales1910
Jack1910
pimento cheese1910
mozzarella1911
pimiento cheese1911
Monterey cheese1912
processed cheese1918
Tillamook1918
tvorog1918
anari1919
process cheese1923
Bel Paese1926
pecorino1931
Oka1936
Parmigiano–Reggiano1936
vacherin1936
Monterey Jack1940
Red Leicester1940
demi-sel1946
tomme1946
Danish blue1948
Tilsit1950
St.-Maure1951
Samsoe1953
Havarti1954
paneer1954
taleggio1954
feta1956
St. Paulin1956
bleu cheese1957
Manchego1957
Ilchester1963
Dolcelatte1964
chèvre1965
Chaource1966
Windsor Red1969
halloumi1970
Montrachet1973
Chaumes1976
Lymeswold1981
cambozola1984
yarg1984
1827 W. Bennett Owain Goch II. viii. 209 Hur always takes from the rich first; that fat goose and the three ducks, and that heavy cheese and the skim dick.
1858 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 2 Oct. 8/1 Two itinerant cheese factors..were charged with obtaining money under false pretences..by selling to them a quantity of ‘skim dick,’ for real double Gloucester cheese.
1916 Brit. Food Jrnl. Jan. 259/1 In a cheese such as we have had before us this morning it is stated that the percentage of milk fat was 4-7... Can you describe such a cheese?.. Our grandmothers called it ‘Skimmed Dick’.
1972 Centennial Rev. 16 254 Twin rounds of skim-dick cheese and warm batch-bread.
1981 C. Hunt Speaking a Silence 16 You'd just put on some skim dick—that's what we called the separated milk they gave us.
b. Originally English regional. A pudding. Usually with premodifying adjective, esp. in Spotted Dick n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > sweet or fruit puddings
white pudding1588
quaking puddinga1665
apple pudding1708
cowslip pudding1723
plum pudding1811
roly-poly pudding1821
black cap1822
amber pudding1829
bird's nest pudding1829
slump1831
Bakewell pudding1833
roly-poly1835
dog in a (or the) blanket1842
castle pudding1845
ice pudding1846
pan pie1846
dick1849
roll-up1856
canary pudding1861
roly1861
treacle pud1861
Brown Betty1864
summer pudding1875
parfait1884
schalet1884
Sally Lunn pudding1892
Tommy1895
queen of puddings1903
layer-pudding1909
clafoutis1926
shrikhand1950
chocolate fondant1971
mud-pie1975
tiramisu1982
lava cake1994
1849 A. Soyer Mod. Housewife 350 Plum Bolster, or Spotted Dick.—Roll out two pounds of paste.., have some Smyrna raisins well washed [etc.].
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Pudding-cake, a composition of flour and water boiled; differing from a hard dick in shape only, being flat instead of round.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 36 Dick, plain pudding. If with treacle sauce, treacle dick.
1992 E. A. Geary Proper Edge of Sky 126 During the lean seasons, the diet staples were lumpy dick (made by stirring flour in boiling milk) and bread spread with lard instead of butter.
2009 Times 30 Oct. 23/1 The economic downturn has already increased demand for comfort food, reflected in sales of..school dinner staples such as roly-poly and spotted dick.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip
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1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 120 Dick, a riding whip; gold-headed dick, one so ornamented. [Also in later dictionaries.]
4. slang.
a. The penis.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
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tarsec1000
pintleOE
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pillicock?c1335
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Roger1689
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jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
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Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
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John Thomasc1890
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middle leg1896
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micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
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plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
c1890 Stag Party Student (turning her fairly around and putting his dick where his finger was)—Nice, isn't it, ducky?
1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 68 That circumcised dick of his.
1969 P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 79 You might have thought that..my dick would have been the last thing on my mind.
2011 T. Ronald Becoming Nancy (2012) x. 152 He doesn't want romance and kissing; he wants someone to play with his dick.
b. Sexual intercourse with a man; men as a source of sexual gratification. Cf. cock n.1 9b.
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1956 ‘Speckled Red’ Dirty Dozen (song) in P. Oliver Screening Blues (1968) vi. 240 Your mam' she's out on the street catching dick, dick, dick.
1974 D. Goines Eldorado Red viii. 107 Why don't you take that broad in the bedroom and give her some dick?
1986 A. Bleasdale No Surrender 66 The only regret I've ever had, Father, was that I never got enough dick.
2013 D. Savage Amer. Savage (2014) xi. 148 A lesbian called my podcast to complain that her bisexual girlfriend actually liked dick (gasp!).
5. slang (chiefly U.S.). In various dismissive phrases with the sense ‘nothing at all’; (in negative constructions) ‘anything at all, the least thing’.
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1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 76 Dick, Money for, Money for nothing.
1974 R. Price Wanderers ix. 161 You guys are a bunch of azzoles, all a you... You can't fight wort' dick.
1998 ‘J. D. Robb’ Holiday in Death xvi. 233 One present don't mean dick. Quantity, pal. Think quantity.
2012 M. K. Andrews Spring Fever 276 Mallery doesn't know dick... I did sell my business but there were..complications.
6. slang (originally U.S.). A stupid, annoying, or detestable person (esp. a male); one whose behaviour is considered knowingly obnoxious, provocative, or disruptive. Cf. dickhead n. 1, and also cock n.1 11, prick n. 12c.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
asseOE
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skit-brains?1553
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tomfool1565
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Essex calf1573
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beetle-head1577
dor-head1577
groutnoll1578
grosshead1580
thickskin1582
noddyship?1589
jobbernowl1592
beetle-brain1593
Dorbel1593
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loggerhead1595
block-pate1598
cittern-head1598
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clot-poll1609
doddiea1611
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ox-head1613
clod-polla1616
dulman1615
jolterhead1620
bullhead1624
dunderwhelpa1625
dunderhead1630
macaroona1631
clod-patea1635
clota1637
dildo1638
clot-pate1640
stupid1640
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stub1644
simpletonian1652
bottle-head1654
Bœotiana1657
vappe1657
lackwit1668
cudden1673
plant-animal1673
dolt-head1679
cabbage head1682
put1688
a piece of wood1691
ouphe1694
dunderpate1697
numbskull1697
leather-head1699
nocky1699
Tom Cony1699
mopus1700
bluff-head1703
clod skull1707
dunny1709
dowf1722
stupe1722
gamphrel1729
gobbin?1746
duncehead1749
half-wit1755
thick-skull1755
jackass1756
woollen-head1756
numbhead1757
beef-head1775
granny1776
stupid-head1792
stunpolla1794
timber-head1794
wether heada1796
dummy1796
noghead1800
staumrel1802
muttonhead1803
num1807
dummkopf1809
tumphya1813
cod's head and shoulders1820
stoopid1823
thick-head1824
gype1825
stob1825
stookiea1828
woodenhead1831
ning-nong1832
log-head1834
fat-head1835
dunderheadism1836
turnip1837
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cabbage1844
morepork1845
lubber-head1847
slowpoke1847
stupiditarian1850
pudding-head1851
cod's head and shoulders1852
putty head1853
moke1855
mullet-head1855
pothead1855
mug1857
thick1857
boodle1862
meathead1863
missing link1863
half-baked1866
lunk1867
turnip-head1869
rummy1872
pumpkin-head1876
tattie1879
chump1883
dully1883
cretin1884
lunkhead1884
mopstick1886
dumbhead1887
peanut head1891
pie-face1891
doughbakea1895
butt-head1896
pinhead1896
cheesehead1900
nyamps1900
box head1902
bonehead1903
chickenhead1903
thickwit1904
cluck1906
boob1907
John1908
mooch1910
nitwit1910
dikkop1913
goop1914
goofus1916
rumdum1916
bone dome1917
moron1917
oik1917
jabroni1919
dumb-bell1920
knob1920
goon1921
dimwit1922
ivory dome1923
stone jug1923
dingleberry1924
gimp1924
bird brain1926
jughead1926
cloth-head1927
dumb1928
gazook1928
mouldwarp1928
ding-dong1929
stupido1929
mook1930
sparrow-brain1930
knobhead1931
dip1932
drip1932
epsilon1932
bohunkus1933
Nimrod1933
dumbass1934
zombie1936
pea-brain1938
knot-head1940
schlump1941
jarhead1942
Joe Soap1943
knuckle-head1944
nong1944
lame-brain1945
gobshite1946
rock-head1947
potato head1948
jerko1949
turkey1951
momo1953
poop-head1955
a right one1958
bam1959
nong-nong1959
dickhead1960
dumbo1960
Herbert1960
lamer1961
bampot1962
dipshit1963
bamstick1965
doofus1965
dick1966
pillock1967
zipperhead1967
dipstick1968
thickie1968
poephol1969
yo-yo1970
doof1971
cockhead1972
nully1973
thicko1976
wazzock1976
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
no-brainer1979
jerkwad1980
woodentop1981
dickwad1983
dough ball1983
dickweed1984
bawheid1985
numpty1985
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
knob-end1989
Muppet1989
dingus1997
dicksack1999
eight ball-
the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [noun] > loathsome or unpleasant person
hateful1510
son of a ——?1576
son of a bitch1655
nuisance1661
obnoxity1851
oik1917
knob1920
putz1928
swipe1929
jack-off?1939
jagoff?1939
sumbitch1944
jerko1949
sonofa1950
bloody1960
weeny1964
dick1966
gross-out1966
wank1970
poison ivy1976
jerkwad1980
dickwad1983
dickweed1984
jerkweed1988
knob jockey1989
wankstain1990
ball sack1991
bawbag1999
dicksack1999
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation > one who or that which annoys
noyera1382
annoyancec1405
offender?a1425
fretter?1504
traik1513
vexer1530
annoying1566
annoyer1577
plagueship1628
annoyancer1632
disobliger1648
nuisance1661
galler1674
bug1785
torment1785
botheration1801
nark1846
scunner1865
bother1866
botherer1869
crucifier1870
dinlo1873
bastard1919
skelf1927
dick1966
wazzock1976
knob jockey1989
1966 N. Bogner Divorce xix. 390 ‘You boys form a line on the porch,..I want to see it straight as a ruler.’.. Fish murmured: ‘He's a dick.’
1979 National Lampoon Aug. 41/2 Really feel like a dick for traveling around with your mom and dad in a camper.
1988 D. Waters Heathers (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 31 J. D. holds up a bottle of cleaning fluid. Veronica Don't be a dick, that stuff would kill her.
2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 8 He's still a dick... Down the hall doing wheel spins in the car-park. He's near thirty!
Phrases
P1. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). to step (also trip) on one's dick and variants: to make a serious blunder; to fail, esp. in an embarrassing manner.Used chiefly but not exclusively of men.
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1951 J. Blake Let. 23 Dec. in Joint (1971) 36 The risk was perhaps too great,..and it would have been just my style to step on my dick again.
2001 Re: Impeach Bush: Bill Moyer for President in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet newsgroup) 21 Sept. I don't know why Bush should be impeached because Maher tripped on his dick.
2014 M. Fiorito Run 166 We got this far. Let's not step on our dicks now.
P2. to suck dick: see suck v. Additions.
P3. slang (originally U.S.). to get one's dick wet: (of a man) to have sexual intercourse.
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1974 C. Hernton Scarecrow ii. 41 ‘Tell us bout the last time you got some cunt.’ ‘Fuck! Dhat boy ain't had his dick wet since the last time he got caught in the rain!’
1996 Re: Does Speed Seduction require Lying? in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet newsgroup) 4 Oct. Her feelings don't matter as long as you get your dick wet.
2016 @criztoephur 16 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I'm 21, I want a relationship. I'm not trying to get my dick wet.
P4. slang (originally U.S.). to hold one's dick: to be unaware or unprepared; (also) to be idle, to waste time. Frequently in to be caught holding one's dick, to be left holding one's dick.Used chiefly but not exclusively of men.
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1982 ‘W. T. Tyler’ Rogue's March xii. 91 Don't tell me they caught you holding your dick too, like the rest of these birds.
1997 Re: Conservative Mt Bikers? in alt.mountain-bike (Usenet newsgroup) 2 May It will be interesting to see the look on their faces when their heroes finally achieve their goals and they are left holding their dicks and wondering what happened.
2012 @skennedy_5 24 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Oklahoma might have the worst construction crews ever. Stop standing around holding your dicks and get to fucking work.
Compounds
C1. regional. Compounds relating to the pet name, Dick (see sense 1a).† Dick-dunnock n. Obsolete the dunnock (hedge sparrow), Prunella modularis.
Dick-a-dilver n. chiefly East Anglian the lesser periwinkle, Vinca minor.
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Dick-a-dilver, the herb periwinkle..It is so called from its rooting (delving) at every joint, and spreading itself far and wide.
1904 Daily Chron. 3 May 4/7 Live and blossom, periwinkle, 'Neath the skies of blue and silver, Nature's dews on you shall sprinkle, Modest little dick-a-dilver.
1973 E. A. Ellis Wild Flowers of Woodlands 6 Lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor). A creeping woodland evergreen with privet-like foliage, the ‘Dick-a-dilver’.
Dick-a-Tuesday n. now rare (in folklore) a name for an ignis fatuus, regarded as a sprite; a will-o'-the-wisp.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > will-o'-the-wisp
fox-fire1483
foolish fire1563
ignis fatuus1563
fool's fire1583
Kit with the canstick or candlestick1584
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1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker ii. sig. E4 Ghosts Hobgoblins, Will with wispe, or Dicke a Tues-day.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Dick-a-tuesday, the ignis fatuus.
1848 Lit. Gaz. 23 Dec. 849/2 Kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, [etc.].
1999 Irish Times (Nexis) 25 Nov. 24 The origins of ‘Spunkie’, ‘Gillian burnt-tail’, ‘John in the Wad’ and ‘Dick a' Tuesday’ are all lost in local folklore.
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1825 P. J. Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornithol.: Pt. 1st 206 Hedge-Accentor.—Accentor modularis..Provincial, Dick-Dunnock, Titling, Foolish Sparrow.
1863 H. G. Adams Our Feathered Families I. vi. 73 The Hedge Chanter (Accentor modularis), more commonly called the Hedge Sparrow, Hedge Warbler, or Dunnock; sometimes Dick Dunnock or Shuffle-wing.
1905 W. P. Westell Brit. Bird Life cxxix. 251 It possesses many local names, and amongst the most prominent are the following: Hedge Accentor, Muffitie, Grosbeak, Blue Isaac, Cuddy, Dick Dunnock, Dunnock, Foolish Sparrow (what a ridiculous localisation).
C2. slang. Compounds relating to senses 4a, 6.
dickbag n. originally U.S. an obnoxious, detestable, or stupid person (esp. a male). [Probably influenced by earlier formations such as e.g. douchebag n. 2, scumbag n. 2, shit-bag n. (b) at shit n. and adj. Compounds 2.]
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1991 Butfucking Little Pansey Fagotts in alt.evil (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Apr. Yet another dickbag decided to post on alt.evil, but try to make it so that other people couldn't see the response.
2007 J. Starr Follower xii. 93 Andy called her boss a prick, a jackass, a dickbag.
2014 D. Shafer Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 146 But the business partner was a scheming little prick... ‘That dickbag has turned them all against me.’
dickbrain n. originally U.S. a person (esp. a male) lacking intelligence or common sense; a fool; also as a more general term of abuse.J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 585/1 records an oral use from 1971.
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1973 Chicago Rev. 25 No. 1. 70 Where's that, dickbrain?
1977 D. Bredes Hard Feelings viii. 229 You dickbrain. It wasn't me that killed your dog.
1992 I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 173 Designed by NASA to train astronauts. Ends up as a toy for dickbrains in a pub in Govan.
2012 E. Kester That Bk. about Harvard 308 Hey dickbrain, where ya shlunking off to?
dick-brained adj. originally U.S. stupid, foolish, ignorant.
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1984 R. Harding Outrider x. 97 Where in the name of every fucking dick-brained raider are you going?
2000 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 15 May 26 Howard has done some dick-brained things in his time, but he hasn't sunk that low.
2017 @abeetata 6 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Yes, Nick, today was a fucking disaster because you're a dick-brained idiot.
dickbreath n. U.S. an obnoxious or detestable person (esp. a male); often as an abusive form of address.Recorded earliest in appositive use.
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1973 E. Bunker No Beast so Fierce i. i. 12 Look, dick breath motherfucker. Get off my mama's back.
2002 A. Henry Learning to Fly 158 This dickbreath was always on my case, so I had to teach him a lesson.
2017 @kurtisconner 28 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Thanks for stealing my joke, dickbreath.
dickface n. originally U.S. an obnoxious or detestable person (esp. a male); often as an abusive form of address.J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 585/2 records an oral use from 1975.
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1978 Midwestern Jrnl. Lang. & Folklore 4 53 X: Go fuck yourself. Y: At least I can, dickface.
1993 H. Stern Private Parts iii. 81 Nobody wanted to say that those dickfaces in the streets had..no reason to do any of what they were doing.
2018 N. Harkaway Gnomon 127 You kidnapped me, dickface.
dick joke n. originally U.S. a crude joke that refers to the penis, often regarded as a typical example of puerile humour.In quot. 1973 used punningly with reference to the forename, Dick.
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1973 M. Seligson Eternal Bliss Machine xiv. 258 He [sc. the comedian] stops at a table where two of the guys are named Dick; don't even ask about the mileage he gets out of creaky ‘dick’ jokes.
1990 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 2 Nov. (Late ed.) (Metro section) 1 There were a few dick jokes in there, so I rewrote the entire act.
2013 J. Winfield in S. Carson Living with Shakespeare 192 We added more highbrow material, and took out some (but not all) of the pratfalls and dick jokes.
dick-measuring n. macho rivalry, boasting, or showing off among men; chiefly attributive, esp. in dick-measuring contest.Cf. dick-swinging n. and adj., dick-waving adj. and n.
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1980 W. Kotzwinkle Jack in Box xxiv. 167 It's gonna turn into another dick-measuring contest.
1996 Re: High School Reunion in alt.society.generation-x (Usenet newsgroup) 18 May I went to my 10 year reunion in 1992 and had a great time, with minimal dick-measuring going on.
2018 @iBrettmypants 2 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Our president is in an international dick-measuring contest that may end in nuclear war.
dick move n. originally U.S. an obnoxious, devious, or stupid decision or course of action, typically one which undermines or causes harm to another person.
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1994 Re: That Bell in alt.fan.don-n-mike (Usenet newsgroup) 9 Sept. Don't you think when Don throws those pencils it is sort of a dick move. I mean at least Letterman throws them at the camera not at a person.
2007 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 7 Dec. (Metro ed.) (Vita.mn section 33) Hitting ‘ignore’ on your cell for all eternity is one of several unacceptable ways to call things off. Otherwise known as a ‘dick move’, this method is close cousins with the breakup text message.
2013 C. Doctorow Homeland vi. 116 You know that bringing Jolu into this is pretty much the same kind of dick move that Masha pulled when she brought you into it.
dick pic n. a photograph taken by a man of his penis, esp. one sent unsolicited by electronic messaging or shared via social media.
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1993 Re: OK.. Who sent me those Penis-Pictures?!?!?! in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet newsgroup) 28 Dec. [Quoting deleted post] He is a harmless little closet queen whacking off to dick pics sent to him by friends.
2013 Variety 5 Nov. 102/3 New York audiences are a dream because you can't shock them... You never know what mayoral candidate just texted them a dick pic minutes before the show.
2016 V. Swami Attraction Explained v. 135 Demands for sex, abusive responses to rejection, and dick pics—unsolicited photos of genitals—are all common forms of woman-hating in contemporary dating.
dick-swinging n. and adj. (a) n. boastful or aggressive demonstration of machismo or toughness; frequently attributive, esp. in dick-swinging contest; (b) adj. engaging in or characterized by boastful or aggressive demonstration of machismo or toughness. [Compare earlier swinging dick n. at swinging adj. Additions.] Cf. dick-measuring n., dick-waving adj. and n.
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1994 Re: This Whole Moshing Thing in alt.music.alternative (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Apr. Don't assume that I share in your dick-swinging fantasies of tough-guy posturing.
1996 Re: MAC or DOS: HELP! in k12.chat.teacher (Usenet newsgroup) 30 Jan. This dick-swinging argument that you..keep spewing is getting tiresome.
2009 Guardian.com (Nexis) 1 July There is little doubt..that the motivation for the moon landings was political dickswinging.
2014 Independent (Electronic ed.) 15 Feb. 10 I..hated this bolshie dick-swinging armed response team—little more than a gang of thugs themselves.
2018 @h8upesci 5 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) [He] is..losing all his client's money in [a] dick-swinging contest.
dick-waving adj. and n. (a) adj. engaging in or characterized by boastful or aggressive demonstration of machismo or toughness; (b) n. boastful or aggressive demonstration of machismo or toughness; frequently attributive, esp. in dick-waving contest.Cf. dick-measuring n., dick-swinging n. and adj.
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1990 TheaterWeek 16 Apr. 33/1 Baal is just the kind of dick-waving, drunk-as-a-skunk swashbuckler this era's art brokers like best.
1992 Re: Sheaffertron on Trial in soc.women (Usenet newsgroup) 5 Aug. I find this thinly-veiled locker room dick wavingbeyond the limit of what I can sit quietly at my terminal and tolerate.
2001 Re: Ebay strikes down EQ Products in alt.games.everquest (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Jan. I always love dick waving idiots challenging people to a fight in a newsgroup.
2018 @TehBlackParade 3 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Why are two world leaders with access to nuclear weapons having a dick-waving contest on Twitter?
dickweasel n. a duplicitous, obnoxious, or detestable person (esp. a male).
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1994 Re: Sue! Sue! Sue! (Revisited) in alt.peeves (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Mar. That ‘psychic’ dick-weasel..and his endless string of harassing lawsuits against anyone who takes the trouble to expose his fraudulent ass.
2008 D. Dorst Alive in Necropolis v. 97 Hey, you dick-weasels.
2012 G. Flynn Gone Girl 122 Mr. Binks was a cheating dickweasel, but, you know, marriage is compromise.
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† dickn.2
English regional. Obsolete.
An apron, esp. one made of leather. Cf. dicky n.1 3a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron > types of
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1838 Manch. Times 28 Apr. ‘Jane, this will never do, why you would require a new frock every week.’ ‘Aye, aye, sir, just what my mother used to say,—she would need to get a leather dick for me.’
1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Dick, a kind of apron such as worn by shoemakers, especially a leather one, which was called a ‘leather dick’.
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dickn.3
/dɪk/, U.S. /dɪk/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (intransitive)]
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1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter II. xii. 268 I'd take my dying dick he hasn't got a writ in his pocket.
1869 E. Yates Wrecked in Port I. i. 1 I'll take my dick I heard old Osborne say so!
1907 Age (Melbourne) 8 June 19/4 If it hadn't been for the old trick with the eye-glass and the black ribbon, I take my dick I shouldn't have known him.
2. slang and regional. up to dick: up to a proper or high standard; excellent; (also) properly, suitably; excellently; to a high standard.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
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1863 Miner & Workman's Advocate 4 July 5/4 There are few here, however, who are ‘up to Dick’ in this matter.
1871 Daily News 7 Sept. The capital of the West is up to dick in the matter of lunches.
1883 Tatler 1 Sept. 7/1 I rose early and dressed myself up to Dick.
1912 J. Bradshaw Highway Robbery under Arms vi. 24 Two men..asked me to travel with them, and said that I would enjoy myself up to dick.
1939 Manilla (Austral.) Express 24 Nov. The quick and not the dead is in evidence—everything looked up to dick.
2017 @EVarnom 2 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Omg! Going to NCS presentation and everyone has dressed up to dick. I look like a bag lady.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dickn.4
/dɪk/, U.S. /dɪk/ slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
A police officer; a detective. Frequently in private dick n. at private adj.1, adv., and n. Compounds 2.
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society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [noun] > detective
plant1812
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Richard1914
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cozzer1950
Five-O1983
1905 F. Hutchison Philos. Johnnie the Gent 79 Them big cheese coppers thinks nobody's hep to them bein' dicks who they take off the brass buttons an hide their star?
1908 Washington Post 8 Feb. m2/6 He would come there with some other Dicks; the whole mob, including myself, would be nailed.
1962 Washington Post 27 Apr. d1/1 The house dicks of the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau are now engaged in the engaging mystery of who left the battery in stall gate No. One.
1993 H. Polkinhorn in L. McCaffery Avant-Pop (1995) 186 The Calexico police had called him in... The local dicks figured he might be of some use in their deadlocked investigation.
2017 Times (Nexis) 26 Aug. 23 Cormoran Strike is a private dick with a false leg and a colourful past.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dickv.
/dɪk/, U.S. /dɪk/ slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
1. transitive. Of a man: to have penetrative sexual intercourse with (someone). Cf. knob v. 5.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with
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haveOE
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to make a baby1911
to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912
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roll1926
to make love1927
shtupa1934
to give (or get) a tumble1934
shack1935
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tom1949
to hop into bed (with)1951
ball1955
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1892 Southwestern Reporter 17 548/2 He would meet Sara Lee Rimmer there..at night, and ‘dick’ her, meaning that he would have carnal knowledge of her.
1952 M. A. Cooper Sironia, Texas I. xxiii. 618 Splice..said his ‘motto’ was: ‘Dick 'em where you ditch 'em, and ditch 'em when you've dicked 'em!’ He was playing around Miz Lottie now. There were bets she wouldn't stand for being ‘ditched’.
1987 W. McPherson Sargasso Sea (1988) ii. 53 The guy on the Island was dicking her.
2017 @SamWhyte 18 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) When someone is that brazen a homophobe I'd be more surprised if they weren't surreptitiously dicking guys between meetings.
2. transitive. To cheat (a person); to deceive; to betray. Cf. to dick over at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]
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1964 Amer. Speech 39 280 Dick, to cheat.
1971 T. Whitmore Memphis, Nam, Sweden 127 He was stateside and I was dicked!
1995 Independent (Nexis) 28 Apr. 26 Maybe I'll open a school to teach artists the business. A lot of them don't understand it and they get dicked. I've worked too hard to get dicked.
2010 @taylorklong 30 Apr. in twitter.com (30 Apr.) My boss is trying to dick me out of a bonus.
3. transitive. To damage (something); to ruin, spoil; to destroy. Cf. to dick up at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)]
to bring to noughteOE
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fordilghec900
to bring to naughtOE
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to knock out1944
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally
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envenom1533
vitiate1534
quail1551
impeach1563
subvert1565
craze1573
taint1573
spoil1578
endamage1579
qualify1584
stain1584
crack1590
ravish1594
interess1598
invitiate1598
corrupt1602
venom1621
depauperate1623
detriment1623
flaw1623
embase1625
ungold1637
murder1644
refract1646
depress1647
addle1652
sweal1655
butcher1659
shade1813
mess1823
puckeroo1840
untone1861
blue1880
queer1884
dick1972
forgar-
1972 C. Gaines Stay Hungry xii. 129 I'm sorry Stewart had to dick it for you.
1990 J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential xv. 104 One major class transfer requirement dicked.
2017 @isaacmoralesjr 26 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) No case for 2 weeks and still haven't dicked my phone I'm impressed.
Phrasal verbs
PV1. With adverbs in specialized senses. to dick about to dick around to dick down to dick off to dick over to dick up
1. transitive. To inconvenience or annoy (a person), esp. by acting indecisively; to waste (a person's) time; to mess about with; = to dick around 1 at Phrasal verbs 1. Cf. to fuck about 2b at fuck v. Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex
gremec893
dretchc900
awhenec1000
teenOE
fretc1290
annoyc1300
atrayc1320
encumberc1330
diseasec1340
grindc1350
distemperc1386
offenda1387
arra1400
avexa1400
derea1400
miscomforta1400
angerc1400
engrievec1400
vex1418
molesta1425
entrouble?1435
destroublea1450
poina1450
rubc1450
to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450
disprofit1483
agrea1492
trouble1515
grig1553
mis-set?1553
nip?1553
grate1555
gripe1559
spitec1563
fike?1572
gall1573
corsie1574
corrosive1581
touch1581
disaccommodate1586
macerate1588
perplex1590
thorn1592
exulcerate1593
plague1595
incommode1598
affret1600
brier1601
to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603
discommodate1606
incommodate1611
to grate on or upon1631
disincommodate1635
shog1636
ulcerate1647
incommodiate1650
to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653
discommodiate1654
discommode1657
ruffle1659
regrate1661
disoblige1668
torment1718
pesta1729
chagrin1734
pingle1740
bothera1745
potter1747
wherrit1762
to tweak the nose of1784
to play up1803
tout1808
rasp1810
outrage1818
worrit1818
werrit1825
buggerlug1850
taigle1865
get1867
to give a person the pip1881
to get across ——1888
nark1888
eat1893
to twist the tail1895
dudgeon1906
to tweak the tail of1909
sore1929
to put up1930
wouldn't it rip you!1941
sheg1943
to dick around1944
cheese1946
to pee off1946
to honk off1970
to fuck off1973
to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977
to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983
to wind up1984
to dick about1996
to-teen-
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > affect with inconvenience [verb (transitive)]
trouble1516
misease1530
incommodatea1575
inconveniencea1656
run1697
incommode1702
disannul1794
disconvenience1821
to put about1825
to put out1851
to jerk around1877
to bugger about1921
to dick around1944
to fuck around1955
to bugger around1961
to screw around1967
to fuck about1975
to cock around1990
to dick about1996
to cock about2009
1996 C. Higson Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen i. 12 Perhaps if I hadn't been woken prematurely and dicked about by the weather forecasters, I might have chosen to act differently.
1997 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 May (Features section) I don't like my food dicked about. I like simple food with good ingredients.
2015 @peatreebojangle 3 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Anyone know anywhere good that does digital printing on t-shirts? Loads of places are dicking me about right now.
2. intransitive. To waste time; to act unproductively or with no aim or serious intent; to mess about; = to dick around 2 at Phrasal verbs 1. Cf. to fuck about 2a at fuck v. Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity
trifle?a1400
loiterc1400
tiffc1440
tifflec1440
to pick a salad1520
to play the wanton1529
fiddle1530
dauntc1540
piddle1545
dally?1548
pittlea1568
pingle1574
puddle1591
to thrum caps1594
maginate1623
meecha1625
pudder1624
dabble1631
fanfreluche1653
dawdlea1656
taigle17..
niff-naff1728
tiddle1747
peddle1755
gammer1788
quiddle1789
muddle1791
browse1803
niddle1808
poke1811
fal-lal1818
potter1824
footer1825
putter1827
shaffle1828
to fool about1838
mike1838
piffle1847
mess1853
to muck about1856
tinker1856
bohemianize1857
to fool around1860
frivol1866
june1869
muss1876
to muddle about (also around)1877
slummock1877
dicker1888
moodle1893
to fart about1899
to fart about (or around)1899
plouter1899
futz1907
monkey1916
to arse around1919
to play around1929
to fuck around1931
tool1932
frig1933
boondoggle1935
to muck around1935
to screw around1935
to bugger about1937
to bugger around1939
to piss about1943
to dick around1948
to jerk around1953
fart-arse1954
to fanny around1969
slop1973
dork1982
to twat around (or about)1992
to dick about1996
1996 Eat Soup Dec. 135/1 Man-of-the-people Major should stop dicking about and give him a knighthood.
2001 P. Magrs All the Rage (2002) ii. 52 You all think we're just dicking about. But that's not how I see it.
2007 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 11 Feb. 50 Don't dick about with cambelts. You replace them according to age or mileage, and four years is plenty.
1. transitive. To inconvenience or annoy (a person), esp. by acting indecisively; to waste (a person's) time; to mess about with. Cf. to fuck around 2b at fuck v. Phrasal verbs 1, to dick about 1 at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex
gremec893
dretchc900
awhenec1000
teenOE
fretc1290
annoyc1300
atrayc1320
encumberc1330
diseasec1340
grindc1350
distemperc1386
offenda1387
arra1400
avexa1400
derea1400
miscomforta1400
angerc1400
engrievec1400
vex1418
molesta1425
entrouble?1435
destroublea1450
poina1450
rubc1450
to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450
disprofit1483
agrea1492
trouble1515
grig1553
mis-set?1553
nip?1553
grate1555
gripe1559
spitec1563
fike?1572
gall1573
corsie1574
corrosive1581
touch1581
disaccommodate1586
macerate1588
perplex1590
thorn1592
exulcerate1593
plague1595
incommode1598
affret1600
brier1601
to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603
discommodate1606
incommodate1611
to grate on or upon1631
disincommodate1635
shog1636
ulcerate1647
incommodiate1650
to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653
discommodiate1654
discommode1657
ruffle1659
regrate1661
disoblige1668
torment1718
pesta1729
chagrin1734
pingle1740
bothera1745
potter1747
wherrit1762
to tweak the nose of1784
to play up1803
tout1808
rasp1810
outrage1818
worrit1818
werrit1825
buggerlug1850
taigle1865
get1867
to give a person the pip1881
to get across ——1888
nark1888
eat1893
to twist the tail1895
dudgeon1906
to tweak the tail of1909
sore1929
to put up1930
wouldn't it rip you!1941
sheg1943
to dick around1944
cheese1946
to pee off1946
to honk off1970
to fuck off1973
to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977
to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983
to wind up1984
to dick about1996
to-teen-
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > affect with inconvenience [verb (transitive)]
trouble1516
misease1530
incommodatea1575
inconveniencea1656
run1697
incommode1702
disannul1794
disconvenience1821
to put about1825
to put out1851
to jerk around1877
to bugger about1921
to dick around1944
to fuck around1955
to bugger around1961
to screw around1967
to fuck about1975
to cock around1990
to dick about1996
to cock about2009
1944 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 2 July c6/2 This able entertainer who has been dicked around for years by Hollywood is being treated with more respect now that he has returned a radio hero.
1988 S. Lee Jrnl. 23 May in Do Right Thing (1989) 87 Universal Pictures is dicking me around. They won't budge from the $6.5 million budget, won't go a penny over it. It's ridiculous.
2005 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Review section) 5 The clunky attempt at narrative sleight of hand..doesn't feel like complexity. It merely feels like we've been dicked around.
2. intransitive. To waste time; to act unproductively or with no aim or serious intent; to mess about. Cf. to fuck around 2a at fuck v. Phrasal verbs 1, to dick about 2 at Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity
trifle?a1400
loiterc1400
tiffc1440
tifflec1440
to pick a salad1520
to play the wanton1529
fiddle1530
dauntc1540
piddle1545
dally?1548
pittlea1568
pingle1574
puddle1591
to thrum caps1594
maginate1623
meecha1625
pudder1624
dabble1631
fanfreluche1653
dawdlea1656
taigle17..
niff-naff1728
tiddle1747
peddle1755
gammer1788
quiddle1789
muddle1791
browse1803
niddle1808
poke1811
fal-lal1818
potter1824
footer1825
putter1827
shaffle1828
to fool about1838
mike1838
piffle1847
mess1853
to muck about1856
tinker1856
bohemianize1857
to fool around1860
frivol1866
june1869
muss1876
to muddle about (also around)1877
slummock1877
dicker1888
moodle1893
to fart about1899
to fart about (or around)1899
plouter1899
futz1907
monkey1916
to arse around1919
to play around1929
to fuck around1931
tool1932
frig1933
boondoggle1935
to muck around1935
to screw around1935
to bugger about1937
to bugger around1939
to piss about1943
to dick around1948
to jerk around1953
fart-arse1954
to fanny around1969
slop1973
dork1982
to twat around (or about)1992
to dick about1996
1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead ii. xi. 350 The only reason you been dicking around is there ain't anything big enough for you to get your teeth in.
1969 H. S. Thompson Let. 21 June in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 190 Esquire dicked around with a fragment of The Ink Truck for a month or so and almost bought it.
2007 K. H. Hemmings Descendants i. v. 29 I need to get to work, so no dicking around.
transitive. Of a man: to have (vigorous) penetrative sexual intercourse with (someone).
ΚΠ
1984 R. N. Boyd Sex behind Bars 139 Loren quickly mounted the prostrated form of his adversary to a roar of approval from the enthusiastic crowd. ‘Fuck him!’ ‘Get that ass!’ ‘Dick 'im down!’
2000 Re: Viscount gave me Sore Pussy in alt.support.depression.manic (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Sept. He dicked me down big time last night and now I can barely sit down.
2018 @lilninahiraga 28 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Have u ever gotten dicked down so well that u considered dropping out of school to tend to their every need?
intransitive. To loaf around, shirk one's duties. Cf. to fuck off 2 at fuck v. Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)]
sleuthc1300
sloth1390
slotter1553
sloven1560
truant1580
drone1632
slubberc1820
sluggardize1837
to lie down1918
to dick off1948
schlump1953
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > avoid duty, work, or exertion
feignc1300
lurk1551
slug1642
skulk1781
malinger1820
mike1838
shirk1853
slinker1880
scrimshank1882
pike1889
scow1901
spruce1916
to swing the lead1917
bludge1919
to dodge the column1919
skive1919
to screw off1943
to do a never1946
to fuck off1946
to dick off1948
1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead i. xi. 317 Men were dicking off on patrols.
1981 S. King Danse Macabre ix. 345 A writer who only produces one book every seven years is simply dicking off.
2018 @Riverrunsred25 7 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Everyone is inside working, I'm in my truck dicking off on Twitter and listening to the Ramones.
transitive. To treat (a person) unfairly or harshly; to cheat; to deceive, betray. Cf. sense 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > act unjustly to [verb (transitive)]
to do (…) wrongc1220
wrongc1330
malign1432
injuryc1484
injure1597
to fuck over1961
to screw over1968
dork1969
to dick over1991
1991 R. Richter Something in Vallarta vii. 106 I want her to know I'm watchin' to see if she's tryin' to dick me over. If she goes, let her go.
2002 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 8 Sept. 19 The Americans did not want to be ‘dicked over by Iraq’, he [sc. Tony Blair] told his audience.
2006 J. M. Snyder Shorts 184 Show me the cash first,..so I know you ain't trying to dick me over.
transitive. To damage (something); to ruin, spoil; to bungle, mess up. Also intransitive. Cf. sense 3, to cock up 3a at cock v.1 Phrasal verbs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to
werdec725
wema1000
evilc1000
harmc1000
hinderc1000
teenOE
scathec1175
illc1220
to wait (one) scathec1275
to have (…) wrong1303
annoya1325
grievec1330
wrong1390
to do violence to (also unto)a1393
mischievea1393
damagea1400
annulc1425
trespass1427
mischief1437
poisonc1450
injurea1492
damnify1512
prejudge1531
misfease1571
indemnify1583
bane1601
debauch1633
lese1678
empoison1780
misguggle1814
nobble1860
strafe1915
to dick up1951
1951 D. R. Morris China Station 223 If it dicks everything up for you,..maybe you better go now.
1992 D. Poyer Circle (1993) 362 He'd dicked up all along the line.
2002 G. Kent Top Hook (2003) 122 Uh, sorry, sir. Yeah, I dicked that up.
2016 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 14 Sept. 9 They are going to dick up the legitimate and necessary use of emails with friggin record rules.
PV2. With prepositions in specialized senses. to dick with ——
intransitive. To meddle or interfere with; to provoke or take on. J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 585/1 records an oral use from 1978.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > intervene between [verb (transitive)] > interfere in or meddle with
attame1430
intertrike1513
to dip one's fingers in (a matter)a1601
interfere1633
touch1647
to be (also go) at the ——1898
to screw with ——1973
to dick with ——1979
1979 D. Gram Boulevard Nights v. 49 Com'on, you assholes, don't dick with me!
1986 D. Pendleton Mack Bolan: Fire Eaters xii. 120 A couple of goddamn kids dicking with the fence again.
2015 @iamjohnnyrabors 31 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Monopolies didn't get out of hand until the government dicked with the free market.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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