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"(colloquial) A louse."
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"text": "Can you open the dicky for me?",
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"(historical) A leather apron for a gig, etc."
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"A small bird; a dicky-bird."
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"ref": "2013, Michael Dobbs, A Ghost at the Door",
"text": "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.",
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"(idiomatic, UK, in negative constructions) An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird."
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"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
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"A pilot."
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"slang",
"slang"
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"pilot",
"pilot"
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"(UK, military slang) A pilot."
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"UK",
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"military",
"politics",
"war"
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"All topics",
"Life",
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"Nature"
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"Nature"
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"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
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"(UK, dialect) A hedge sparrow."
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
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"ref": "1896, Augustus Jessopp, Random Roaming, and Other Papers, page 181",
"text": "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 […]",
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"A donkey."
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"(UK, dialect) A donkey."
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"UK",
"dialectal"
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"A haddock."
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]
}
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"text": "He had a dicky heart."
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"ref": "1867, Edmund Yates, Broken to Harness: A Story of English Domestic Life, page 311",
"text": "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; […]",
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"(colloquial) doubtful, troublesome; in poor condition"
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"(informal, vulgar) like a dick, foolish or obnoxious"
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"word": "dicky up"
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival)",
"English terms suffixed with -y (diminutive)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"en:Accentors",
"en:Automotive",
"en:Clothing",
"en:Equids",
"en:Gadiforms",
"en:Headwear",
"en:Lice"
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"word": "dicky bird"
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{
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}
],
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"2": "ڈِکّی",
"3": "ڈِگّی",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "ḍikkī",
"tr2": "ḍiggī"
},
"expansion": "→ Urdu: ڈِکّی (ḍikkī), ڈِگّی (ḍiggī)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Urdu: ڈِکّی (ḍikkī), ڈِگّی (ḍiggī)"
},
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{
"args": {
"1": "ps",
"2": "ډِګّۍ",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "ḍiggay"
},
"expansion": "→ Pashto: ډِګّۍ (ḍiggay)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Pashto: ډِګّۍ (ḍiggay)"
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"name": "af"
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"2": "dick",
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"form": "dickies",
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}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"A louse."
],
"links": [
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],
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"(colloquial) A louse."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
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"Cockney rhyming slang"
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],
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"slang"
]
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"A detachable shirt front, collar or bib."
],
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[
"collar",
"collar"
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[
"bib",
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"text": "Can you open the dicky for me?",
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"A leather apron for a gig, etc."
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"ref": "2013, Michael Dobbs, A Ghost at the Door",
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"A pilot."
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"A hedge sparrow."
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"ref": "1896, Augustus Jessopp, Random Roaming, and Other Papers, page 181",
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"A haddock."
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