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dicty /ˈdɪkti /adjective US informalOstentatiously stylish; pretentious: up there in their dicty Detroit suburb living the so-called good life...- If she was rejected by an elite and urban northern black community, she also reviled them, scorning their white lifestyle as ‘dicty’ (a pejorative coinage).
- However, it in no way hampers the author's incisive analysis of the ‘dicty,’ African-American bourgeois.
- Thus, I have a hard time seeing how ditzy/ditsy might have been derived from dicty.
Origin Early 20th century: of unknown origin. |