[
US
/ˈdɪki/
]
[ UK /dˈɪki/ ]
[ UK /dˈɪki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(British informal) faulty
I've got this dicky heart
NOUN
- a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt
- a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater
How To Use dickey In A Sentence
- Apart from the cool clothes on the pictures, the brand has a line of delicate necklaces and a (sort of weird) chest accessory, like a very fancy and carefully crafted vest or 'dickey' TreeHugger
- He calls Francie his Prima Donna and gets ready in his white dickey and pearl studs for work.
- Boorman was still rehearsing them in semisecrecy, but they were coming on the sly to see Dickey for background on the characters, even voice coaching. Summer of Deliverance
- R.A. Dickey wants to unteach himself the knuckleball. K-Rod Is Last Stop On Mets' Ugly Bus
- He is extremely proud of his Waiter's Union and always dresses well in his one tuxedo and dickey.
- dickey", I was all impatience to see what she was like; so, the next day happening to be fine, I set off, the first thing after breakfast, and, walking in to Weymouth, made my way straight to the shipyard. The Log of a Privateersman
- They have been altered and provided with a modern "dickey" -- I should say, front -- which rather hides their antiquity. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"
- In Dickey's previous novels, most of the characters tend to be successful, affluent, well-educated African Americans - buppies who have struck it rich professionally, but struck out personally.
- When Saddam bombed Kurdish rebels and civilians with a lethal cocktail of mustard gas, sarin, tabun, and VX in 1988, the Reagan administration first blamed Iran, before acknowledging that the culprits were Saddam's own forces," explained reporters Christopher Dickey and Evan Thomas. America's March Madness
- Nathalie: One could make a good argument for the Elizabethan partlet being a proto-dickey. Today's Pattern Story and Sale - A Dress A Day