dicky — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A louse.

   Uso

   • colloquiale

2. Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.

   Uso

   • Cockney
   • gergo

3. A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.

   Uso

   • gergo

   Sinonimi

   tommy

4. A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.

   Uso

   • datato
   • gergo

5. A seat behind a carriage or early motor car, for a servant.

   Uso

   • datato

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   ...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.

6. A seat in a carriage, for the driver.

   Uso

   • datato

7. The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.

   Uso

   • South-Asia

   Sinonimi

   boottrunk

   Esempi

   Can you open the dicky for me?

   Back and forth, back and forth, go our mothers on their secret missions, carrying their sinister freight in the dicky of our Morris Minor.

8. the buttocks.

   Uso

   • India
   • colloquiale

9. A leather apron for a gig, etc.

   Uso

   • storico

10. A small bird; a dicky-bird.

11. An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.

    Uso

    • uso britannico
    • idiomatic
    • in negative constructions

    Esempi

    Altri esempi (1)

    Oh, she landed at Heathrow all right, like you said, but since then your Miss Ranelagh seems to have vanished as effectively as my overdue promotion. Not used her credit card, her Internet account, her mobile phone. Nothing. Not a dicky.

12. A pilot.

    Uso

    • uso britannico
    • gergo

13. A hedge sparrow.

    Uso

    • uso britannico
    • dialectal

14. A donkey.

    Uso

    • uso britannico
    • dialectal

    Esempi

    Altri esempi (1)

    I've heard grandfather say that when Mr. Priest was at his best there was scores o' young gents as used to come to school as day-boys, 'cause there was no room for 'em to board; and they used to come on dickies […]

15. A haddock.

Aggettivo

1. In bad condition; weak, faulty, unreliable, doubtful, troublesome.

   Uso

   • colloquiale

   Esempi

   He had a dicky heart.

   I've got a dicky tummy.

   Altri esempi (1)

   Ribald boys stuck the red-covered books of domestic household expenditure which they carried into their breasts, and swaggered by with heads erect; others openly expressed their opinion that it was “all dicky” with him; […]

Sostantivo

1. A penis (dick).

   Uso

   • gergo
   • volgare

Aggettivo

1. Like a dick, foolish or obnoxious.

   Uso

   • informale
   • volgare

   Parole correlate

   dicky up

Aggettivo

1. (British informal) faulty

   Sinonimi

   dickey

Sostantivo

1. a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater

   Sinonimi

   dickeydickiedickey-seatdickie-seatdicky-seat

   Termini più generali

   backseat

2. a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt

   Sinonimi

   dickeydickieshirtfront

   Termini più generali

   insertinset