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noun

Dicky, Dickey n.

A false detachable shirt front or bosom. (Also spelled dickie)

A gentleman's shirt collar. (Local, U. S.)

A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. (Slang)

(a)

A seat for the driver (In a carriage); called also dickey box or dickie seat.

(b)

A seat at the back for servants.

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.

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Etymology of 'Dickey'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dickey" Quotes from Famous Books

... wearing a dirty cotton shirt and a dickey. Endeavouring not to show my contempt for the company, I took off my tunic, and lay down in a sociable manner on the sofa. Zuchin went on reading aloud and correcting himself with the help of notebooks, while the others occasionally ...

— Youth • Leo Tolstoy

... dated September 2nd, 1779, has the following: "Returned to this port Alexander Dickey, Commissary of Prisoners, from New York, with a cartel, having on board 180 American prisoners. Their countenances indicate that they ...

— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge

... through the blushes that mantled over her fair cheeks. The bridegroom's frank and manly countenance was radiant with joy. As he waved his hand to Caleb from the window the post-boy cracked his whip, the servant settled himself on the dickey, the horses started off in a brisk trot,—the clergyman ...

— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... "But not as far as Kazan, eh?" "No, not as far as Kazan." With that the conversation ended. Presently, as the britchka was approaching the inn, it was met by a young man in a pair of very short, very tight breeches of white dimity, a quasi-fashionable frockcoat, and a dickey fastened with a pistol-shaped bronze tie-pin. The young man turned his head as he passed the britchka and eyed it attentively; after which he clapped his hand to his cap (which was in danger of being removed by the wind) and resumed his way. On the vehicle reaching the inn door, its occupant ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... pleasant surprise!" though she has seen you coming up the avenue and has just had time to whip the dustcloths off the chairs, and to warn Alick, David and James, that they had better not dare come in to see you before they have put on a dickey. Nor is this the room in which you would dine in solemn grandeur if invited to drop in and take pot-luck, which is how the Wylies invite, it being a family weakness to pretend that they sit down in the dining-room daily. It is the real living-room of the house, where Alick, who will ...

— What Every Woman Knows • James M. Barrie

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