dicky
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He is supremely fit and has been reinvigorated by his shiny new left knee, though he has recently been kiboshed by a dicky hamstring.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
The Plummer brothers - Tremaine, Tristan and Twaine - opted for a mix of cravats and dicky bows to pimp up their navy blue suits.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2022
Anyone who prefers to experience Spielberg’s Holocaust drama with the suffering and distress expunged may have problems other than a dicky bladder.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2019
Tim Roache, the GMB's general secretary, said the firm had conducted a "PR blitz ... without mentioning a dicky bird about cutting staff benefits".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2018
Finding none, he took off his coat and shirt dicky, pulled his undershirt off over his head and dramatically ripped a strip of cloth from it.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Since June, Parsons-Meares has been rushing to fulfill orders for 178 pairs of pants, 120 vests and 125 dickies for “Hamilton” alone.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He turned to Katie and explained: “So many years comes this girl by me to buy dickies and paper collars for the papa. Now for a whole year already, she don’t come.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Ye needna bather your heids ahoot a cab," says I. "I'm wyser than the twa o' ye puttin' thegither; so keep on your dickies.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
The dickies, snugly curled under the lining of a fur cap or narrow-brimmed hat, came forth to be arranged under neck-ties of gay hues and flowing dimensions.
From The Old Homestead by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens