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Dickie   /dˈɪki/   Listen
noun
Dicky, Dickey  n.  
1.
A false detachable shirt front or bosom. (Also spelled dickie)
2.
A gentleman's shirt collar. (Local, U. S.)
3.
A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. (Slang)
4.
(a)
A seat for the driver (In a carriage); called also dickey box or dickie seat.
(b)
A seat at the back for servants.
5.
One of various animals; specif.:
(a)
A donkey.
(b)
Any small bird; called also dickeybird or dickey bird. (Colloq.)
(c)
The hedge sparrow. (Dial. Eng.)
(d)
The haddock.


dickie  n.  
1.
A small 3rd seat in the back of an old-fashioned 2-seat car. (British English)
Synonyms: dickey, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dicky-seat, dickey box.
2.
An article of clothing worn by men, consisting of a detachable insert (usually starched), worn suspended from the neck, which simulates the front of a shirt.
Synonyms: dickey, dicky, shirtfront.





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"Dickie" Quotes from Famous Books



... view. Ted McKnight, who had awakened to the enormity of his crime at the sight of the master knuckling the ink out of his eyes, and had gone grey to the lips in his trepidation, looking anxiously to the right and left for a refuge, saw Dickie's departure; jumping the desk in front he rushed at the aperture the latter had left in the wall, and was gone in the ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... to him and speaks, with the sympathy of a man for a child coming into his voice.] No, a weak lot; that's been your ruin, Dickie. I'll see you again before ...
— The Climbers - A Play in Four Acts • Clyde Fitch
... Who is talking of pictures and things?" The high falsetto announced the Missionary's boy of twelve, who promptly turned a hand spring over the slab bench, never pausing in a running fire of exuberant comment. "Get on y'r bib and tucker, Dickie! You're goin' t' have a s'prise party—right away! Senator Moses and Battle Brydges, handy-andy-dandy, comin' up with Dad and MacDonald! Oh, hullo, Miss Eleanor, how d' y' get here ahead? Did y' ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... She's gone; gone where neither you nor that dour-faced deevil that befooled us all will find her soon, I promise you, Dickie Jennifer!" he snapped; and I gave them my back and stumbled blindly to the door, making sure his next word would tell my poor wronged lad all that he should have learned from never any other lips but mine own. But Richard himself parried the ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... incident sung with immortal fire and vigour in Kinmont Willie took place in 1596. To the same period belong the exploits of Dick of the Cow (who had made a name for himself in London while Elizabeth was on the throne), Archie of Ca'field, Hobbie Noble, Dickie of Dryhope, the Laird's Jock, John o' the Side, and other 'rank reivers,' whose title to the gallows is summed up in Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington's terse verse on the Liddesdale thieves; and their match in spulzying and ...
— The Balladists - Famous Scots Series • John Geddie


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