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Vinony

dickey

noun

  1. false shirt-front
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪki/

adj

Etymology: Unknown; see the main entry.

  1. Alternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”).

name

Etymology: From Dick + -ey. The city in North Dakota was named in honor of the American lawyer George H. Dickey.

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. A small city in LaMoure County, North Dakota.

noun

Etymology: From Dickey.

  1. Alternative form of dicky.

    “...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.”

    “Every Sunday night at eight o'clock punctually the form of David Emmons, arrayed in his best clothes, with his stiff white dickey, and a nosegay in his buttonhole, was seen to advance up the road toward Maria Brewster's, as he had been seen to advance every Sunday night for the last twenty-five years, but that was all.”