Dickey Meaning
/ˈdɪki/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAlternative form of dicky.
adjAlternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”).
Sentence Examples
The dickey seat was small and uncomfortable.
A dickey is a type of false shirt front.
He wore a white dickey under his formal jacket.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The gentleman wore a ____ under his jacket to complete his formal attire.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ seat was small and uncomfortable.
Word Origin & History
From Dickey.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"...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:
"Every Sunday night at eight o'clock punctually the form of David Emmons, arrayed in his best clothes, with his stiff white dickey, and a nosegay in his buttonhole, was seen to advance up the road toward Maria Brewster's, as he had been seen to advance every Sunday night for the last twenty-five years, but that was all."
— 1883, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Two Old Lovers:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The gentleman wore a ____ under his jacket to complete his formal attire.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ seat was small and uncomfortable.