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dickey-bird

dickey-bird is the alternative form of dicky-bird.

Meaning of dicky-bird

Noun

dicky-bird (plural dicky-birds)

  1. (familiar) A small bird.
    • The Swan and the Dickey-bird: A Fable.
  2. (UK, informal) A word; a brief chat.
    • We've not heard a dicky-bird about anything relating to his birthday.
  3. (UK, informal) A small thing.
    • I peeked into the cellar but there was nothing there. Not a dicky-bird.

Forms of dickey-bird

pluraldickey-birds

Questions about dickey-bird

What is dickey-bird the alternative form of?
Dickey-bird is the alternative form of dicky-bird.

Words near dickey-bird in the dictionary

  1. Dickeson
  2. dickey
  3. Dickey County
  4. Dickey Sam
  5. Dickey Sams
  6. dickey-bird
  7. dickey-birds
  8. dickeys
  9. dickface
  10. dickfaces
  11. dickfer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dickey-bird (page history and authors); dicky-bird (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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