"dicty" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dictier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dictiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "dicty (comparative dictier, superlative dictiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 20 26 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "stylish and respectable; high-class"
      ],
      "id": "en-dicty-en-adj-~poQ6Bpt",
      "links": [
        [
          "stylish",
          "stylish"
        ],
        [
          "respectable",
          "respectable"
        ],
        [
          "high-class",
          "high-class"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular) stylish and respectable; high-class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 20 26 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious"
      ],
      "id": "en-dicty-en-adj-raoRsOm6",
      "links": [
        [
          "striving",
          "striving"
        ],
        [
          "stylish",
          "stylish"
        ],
        [
          "respectable",
          "respectable"
        ],
        [
          "pretentious",
          "pretentious"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular) striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 20 26 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, published 1965",
          "text": "We had already decided that he'd have to move in with Isabel and her folks. I knew this wasn't the ideal arrangement because Isabel's folks are inclined to be dicty and they hadn't especially wanted Isabel to marry me. But I didn't know what else to do.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "snobbish and uptight"
      ],
      "id": "en-dicty-en-adj-81u6RSgn",
      "links": [
        [
          "snobbish",
          "snobbish"
        ],
        [
          "uptight",
          "uptight"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular) snobbish and uptight"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dickty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dicty"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dicties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dicty (plural dicties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 20 26 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An upper-class black."
      ],
      "id": "en-dicty-en-noun-~IMhyu3l",
      "links": [
        [
          "upper-class",
          "upper-class"
        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular) An upper-class black."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "high-class",
          "word": "chic"
        },
        {
          "sense": "high-class",
          "word": "classy"
        },
        {
          "sense": "high-class",
          "word": "ritzy"
        },
        {
          "sense": "pretentious",
          "word": "flashy"
        },
        {
          "sense": "pretentious",
          "word": "showy"
        },
        {
          "sense": "snobbish",
          "word": "haughty"
        },
        {
          "sense": "snobbish",
          "word": "hoity-toity"
        },
        {
          "sense": "snobbish",
          "word": "snobby"
        },
        {
          "sense": "snobbish",
          "word": "snooty"
        },
        {
          "sense": "snobbish",
          "word": "stuck-up"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dickty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dicty"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dictier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dictiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "dicty (comparative dictier, superlative dictiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "stylish and respectable; high-class"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stylish",
          "stylish"
        ],
        [
          "respectable",
          "respectable"
        ],
        [
          "high-class",
          "high-class"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular) stylish and respectable; high-class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "striving",
          "striving"
        ],
        [
          "stylish",
          "stylish"
        ],
        [
          "respectable",
          "respectable"
        ],
        [
          "pretentious",
          "pretentious"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular) striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, published 1965",
          "text": "We had already decided that he'd have to move in with Isabel and her folks. I knew this wasn't the ideal arrangement because Isabel's folks are inclined to be dicty and they hadn't especially wanted Isabel to marry me. But I didn't know what else to do.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "snobbish and uptight"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "snobbish",
          "snobbish"
        ],
        [
          "uptight",
          "uptight"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular) snobbish and uptight"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dickty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dicty"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dicties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dicty (plural dicties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An upper-class black."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "upper-class",
          "upper-class"
        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(African-American Vernacular) An upper-class black."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "high-class",
      "word": "chic"
    },
    {
      "sense": "high-class",
      "word": "classy"
    },
    {
      "sense": "high-class",
      "word": "ritzy"
    },
    {
      "sense": "pretentious",
      "word": "flashy"
    },
    {
      "sense": "pretentious",
      "word": "showy"
    },
    {
      "sense": "snobbish",
      "word": "haughty"
    },
    {
      "sense": "snobbish",
      "word": "hoity-toity"
    },
    {
      "sense": "snobbish",
      "word": "snobby"
    },
    {
      "sense": "snobbish",
      "word": "snooty"
    },
    {
      "sense": "snobbish",
      "word": "stuck-up"
    },
    {
      "word": "dickty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dicty"
}