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English
Etymology
From dick + -ey.
Pronunciation
Noun
dickey (plural dickeys)
- Alternative form of dicky
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, pages 134–135:...and she was just in time to see Mr. Boyne Sillery hand her aunt into a carriage, jump in himself, when it drove off with a rapidity which scarcely allowed her to observe that a large imperial was on the top, and her aunt's servant, with a huge bandbox, on the dickey.
Adjective
dickey (comparative dickier, superlative dickiest)
- Alternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”)