[
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
- Obviously not a fake turtleneck (aka a dickey) as it can be seen poking out a shirtsleeve, The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- He now wears a diamond stud in the middle of his dickey and uses a pungent variety of macassar oil on his hair.
- The material is a chalk-stripe spun rayon with reversible white dickey.
- Dickey had previously received a one year suspension in 2002 after testing positive for the prohibited substances phentermine, boldenone and nandrolone in a sample taken from him at the 2001 Tour of Guatemala. Duane Dickey gets lifetime ban
- It was so hot, too, that the pitch bubbled up through the seams in the deck, and Dickey Snookes declared we could have roasted our dinners on the capstern-head. My First Cruise and Other stories
- a "dickey"; the coat had white celluloid cuffs pinned in the sleeves at the wrists. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
- I hate that word, "dickey," but if I say "fichu," will anyone know what that means? Archive 2004-05-01
- He wore a coloured shirt and a 'dickey' which was very soiled and covered with splashes of paint, and one side of it was projecting from the opening of the waistcoat. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- As they begin to climb the succession of slabby cliffs and steep grassy slopes, Dickey turns to his companions and says, ‘We gotta whack this guy, tonight.’
- Mets' Dickey Could Make His Next Start The Mets are hoping pitcher R.A. Dickey can make his next scheduled start after being diagnosed with a partial tear of the plantar facia of the right foot Friday. Gary Carter's Tumors Seem Malignant