dicty

adj

1. stylish and respectable; high-class
2. striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious
3. snobbish and uptight

   “We had already decided that he'd have to move in with Isabel and her folks. I knew this wasn't the ideal arrangement because Isabel's folks are inclined to be dicty and they hadn't especially wanted Isabel to marry me. But I didn't know what else to do.”

noun

1. An upper-class black.

name

1. (diminutive, form-of)diminutive of Dictyostelium discoideum (a soil social amoeba)