dicacityn.
/dɪˈkasɪti/ Obsolete or archaic.
A jesting or mocking habit of speech; raillery, banter; pertness. (Sometimes after Latin dīcĕre: Talkativeness, babbling.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun]
mirth1560
dicacity1592
jest1597
pleasantry1602
raillery1642
rallery1652
badinage1658
banter1660
disport1667
badinerie1712
rig1725
bantery1739
jokery1740
persiflage1757
quizzery1809
quiz1819
chaff1841
borak1845
barrackc1890
mickey-take1968
smack talk1989
bants2008
1592 F. Bacon Conf. Pleasure (1870) 8 Vespasian, a man exceedinglie giuen to the humor of dicacitie and iesting.
1637 T. Heywood Dial. iv, in Wks. (1874) VI. 185 His quicke dicacitie Would evermore be taunting my voracitie.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 133 Lucilius, a centurion, in Tacitus Annal. lib. 1, had a scornful name given him by the military dicacity of his own company.
1751 J. Byrom Enthusiasm in Poems (1773) II. 23 To remit the freedom of inquiry..for their dicacity.
1840 New Monthly Mag. 60 55 Between human eloquence, and the dicacity of the parrot..there is all the difference in the world.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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