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dickies up

dickies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dicky up.

Meaning of dicky up

Verb

dicky up (third-person singular simple present dickies up, present participle dickying up, simple past and past participle dickied up)

  1. (Ireland, UK, slang) To adorn, dress up, spruce up.
    • The way they dicky up the corpse in the fancy funeral parlours today, with cosmetics and other tricks of the trade, and dressed in the best clothes, one would think they were trying to tell you what Our Lord said about the little daughter of Jairus, 'She is not dead but sleeping.'1998, Criostoir O'Flynn, There Is an Isle: A Limerick Boyhood, Boulder, C.O.: Mercier Press; Irish American Book Company, →ISBN, page 206

Questions about dickies up

What is dickies up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dickies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dicky up.

Words near dickies up in the dictionary

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

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