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dickie

Dickey \Dick"ey\, Dicky \Dick"y\, n.

  1. 1. A false detachable shirt front or bosom. [Also spelled dickie.]

  2. A gentleman's shirt collar. [Local, U. S.]

  3. A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. [Slang]

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

    2. A seat at the back for servants.

  4. One of various animals; specif.:

    1. A donkey.

    2. Any small bird; -- called also dickeybird or dickey bird. [Colloq.]

    3. The hedge sparrow. [Dial. Eng.]

    4. The haddock.

dickie

dickie \dickie\ n.

  1. A small 3rd seat in the back of an old-fashioned 2-seat car. [British English]

    Syn: dickey, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dicky-seat, dickey box.

  2. An article of clothing worn by men, consisting of a detachable insert (usually starched), worn suspended from the neck, which simulates the front of a shirt.

    Syn: dickey, dicky, shirtfront.

dickie

Haddock \Had"dock\ (-d[u^]k), n. [OE. hadok, haddok, of unknown origin; cf. Ir. codog, Gael. adag, F. hadot.] (Zo["o]l.) A marine food fish ( Melanogrammus [ae]glefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie.

Norway haddock, a marine edible fish ( Sebastes marinus) of Northern Europe and America. See Rose fish.

Wiktionary
dickie

alt. A false shirt-front sometimes worn with a tuxedo. n. A false shirt-front sometimes worn with a tuxedo.

WordNet
dickie
  1. n. a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater [syn: dickey, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dicky-seat]

  2. a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt [syn: dickey, dicky, shirtfront]

Wikipedia
Dickie (name)

Dickie is a surname, a nickname (most frequently of Richard) and rarely a given name.

Usage examples of "dickie".

Cass was in the small drawing-room, a week after her return, and Jack had left her to go to the stables to enquire after the condition of both the Imp and Dickie.

Every boy in the neighborhood, except Dickie Lee, knew that Cale had been a footballer of some note, and every boy but Dickie knew he was trying to put together a club for boys.

Dickie had made the grooms practise the change-over before they were despatched to the post houses but he couldn't duplicate the real problems they might face in an inn yard crowded with in going and outgoing stagecoaches, mail coaches chaises, barouches, cabriolets and curricles as well as slow gigs and lumbering farm carts, all wanting to change horses rapidly at the same time.

Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation’s capital.

Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation's capital.

Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation&rquo.

Offered them eighty-five grand to bump off Dickie and grind the body into puppy chow.

When the play ended a defensive tackle named Dickie Kidd remained on his knees.

The killer's final touch was diabolical, and not without wit: a fishing lure, the redoubtable Double Whammy, had been hooked through Dickie Lockhart's lower lip.

The other was a PRC hunk of junk,jive junction, starring Dickie Moore, about a bunch of hepcats jitterbugging at the malt shop.

Dickie looks around for the waiter, catches his attention, and orders two iced teas.

Dickie Chapelle proved herself braver than most men, parachuting behind enemy lines, submarining in dangerous waters, leading a patrol of Marines with flame-throwers, and finally blowing herself to fragments on a land mine in Vietnam.

The sales reps had given Dickie Lockhart four bags of assorted lures and hooks, plus a thousand dollars cash as incentive to win the tournament using the company's equipment.

Long before he had collected any evidence against Dickie Lockhart, Dennis Gault had proposed a monitoring program to deter cheating in the big-money tournaments.

She steps around the seaweed and the razor clams, the scallop shells and a piece of netting from a fishing boat, and she thinks of Dickie in Boston.