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dickies

/ˈdɪkiz/

dickies is the plural of dickie.

dickies is the plural of dicky.

Meaning of dicky

Noun

dicky (plural dickies)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    tommy
  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.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 134–135
  6. (dated) A seat in a carriage, for the driver.

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Noun

dickies pl (plural only)

  1. (Geordie, derogatory, plural, plural-only) Head lice or nits.
    • His hair was liftin with dickies
    Synonyms:
    nit, nits

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Words that rhyme with dickies

Questions about dickies

What does dickies mean?
Dickies means head lice or nits.
What is dickies the plural of?
Dickies is the plural of dickie.
What part of speech is dickies?
Dickies is a noun.
How do you pronounce dickies?
Dickies is pronounced /ˈdɪkiz/.

Words near dickies in the dictionary

  1. dickie birds
  2. dickie bow
  3. dickie bows
  4. dickied up
  5. dickier
  6. dickies
  7. dickies up
  8. dickiest
  9. Dickin
  10. dicking
  11. dicking about

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