单词 | dicky |
释义 | dicky 1. n. (also dickey) (pl. -ies or -eys) colloq.   1. a false shirt-front.   2. (in full dicky-bird) a child's word for a little bird.   3. Brit. a driver's seat in a carriage.   4. Brit. an extra folding seat at the back of a vehicle.   5. (in full dicky bow) Brit. a bow-tie. Etymology: some senses f. Dicky (as DICK(1)) 2. adj. (dickier, dickiest) Brit. sl. unsound, likely to collapse or fail. Etymology: 19th c.: perh. f. 'as queer as Dick's hatband' |
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