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Dickey   /dˈɪki/   Listen
Dickey

noun
1.
A small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater.  Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickie, dickie-seat, dicky, dicky-seat.
2.
A man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt.  Synonyms: dickie, dicky, shirtfront.
adjective
1.
(British informal) faulty.  Synonym: dicky.



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"Dickey" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'You can't expect him to belong to the varsity crew an' the Dickey an' the Hasty-Puddin' Club an' dress an' behave like the son of an ordinary grocer in Pointview, Connecticut. Ye can't live on nuts an' raisins an' be decent in such a position. Looks to me as if it would require the combined incomes o' the grocer an' his lawyer ...
— Keeping up with Lizzie • Irving Bacheller

... banged. That night he went to bed a proud and happy boy, and dreamed of fame. He stood surrounded by blazing fireworks, and the vast crowd cheered him. His relations, most of whom, he knew, regarded him as the coming idiot of the family, were there to witness his triumph; so too was Dickey Bowles, who laughed at him because he could not throw straight. The girl at the bun-shop, she also was there, and ...
— The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome

... other gen'lm'n, ven bump they cums agin the post, and out flies the fare like bricks.' Need we say it was the red cab; or that the gentleman with the straw in his mouth, who emerged so coolly from the chemist's shop and philosophically climbing into the little dickey, started off at full gallop, was the red cab's ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens

... A great many authors have expressed themselves too sentimentally." You are right, Marjorie. "A Mr. Burns writes a beautiful song on Mr. Cunhaming, whose wife desarted him—truly it is a most beautiful one." "I like to read the Fabulous historys, about the histerys of Robin, Dickey, flapsay, and Peccay, and it is very amusing, for some were good birds and others bad, but Peccay was the most dutiful and obedient to her parients." "Thomson is a beautiful author, and Pope, but ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various

... he saw Amy put hot bricks into it. Constance herself put goloshes over his boots, not because it was damp, but because indiarubber keeps the feet warm. Constance herself bandaged his neck, and unbuttoned his waistcoat and stuck an extra flannel under his dickey. Constance herself warmed his woollen gloves, and enveloped him in his ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett


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