dicky

name

1. A diminutive of the male given name Richard.

noun

1. (colloquial)A louse.
2. (Cockney, slang)Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
3. (slang)A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
4. (dated, slang)A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.
5. (dated)A seat behind a carriage or early motor car, for a servant.

   “...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.”

6. (dated)A seat in a carriage, for the driver.
7. (South-Asia)The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.

   “Can you open the dicky for me?”

   “Back and forth, back and forth, go our mothers on their secret missions, carrying their sinister freight in the dicky of our Morris Minor.”

8. (India, colloquial)the buttocks.
9. (historical)A leather apron for a gig, etc.
10. A small bird; a dicky-bird.
11. (UK, idiomatic)An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.

    “Oh, she landed at Heathrow all right, like you said, but since then your Miss Ranelagh seems to have vanished as effectively as my overdue promotion. Not used her credit card, her Internet account, her mobile phone. Nothing. Not a dicky.”

12. (UK, slang)A pilot.
13. (UK, dialectal)A hedge sparrow.
14. (UK, dialectal)A donkey.

    “I've heard grandfather say that when Mr. Priest was at his best there was scores o' young gents as used to come to school as day-boys, 'cause there was no room for 'em to board; and they used to come on dickies […]”

15. A haddock.
16. (slang, vulgar)A penis (dick).

adj

1. (colloquial)In bad condition; weak, faulty, unreliable, doubtful, troublesome.

   “He had a dicky heart.”

   “I've got a dicky tummy.”

   “Ribald boys stuck the red-covered books of domestic household expenditure which they carried into their breasts, and swaggered by with heads erect; others openly expressed their opinion that it was “all dicky” with him; […]”

2. (informal, vulgar)Like a dick, foolish or obnoxious.