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dicky

[dik-ee] / ˈdɪk i /


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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

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

I'm also a fan of dicky bows and own several.

From The Guardian Nov. 16, 2012

Johnny’s collar and dicky were a sodden paperish mess.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

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

They had indeed been beaten at the polls as they had expected, but in an honest tulzie with dickies the parish would hear a different tale.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

It had gone through the town like wildfire that he had written to someone in Redlintie to send him on another suit of clothes and four dickies.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie




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