Dickon
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Dickon
- (dated) A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold,
For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.
- 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden:
- Dickon stood rubbing his rusty-red head with a rather puzzled look. "It's a secret garden sure enough," he said, "but seems like some one besides th' robin must have been in it since it was shut up ten year' ago."
- A male given name.