2. Noun. (plural of dicky) ¹
3. Noun. (context: Geordie plurale tantum pejorative) Head lice or nits. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dickies
1. dickie [n] - See also: dickie
Literary usage of Dickies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Scotch Appeals and Writs of Error, Together with Peerage, Divorce by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, John Fraser Macqueen (1866)
"The securities were framed by Gemmill, and the result has been that the dickies
were unable to fulfil their part of the obligation, ..."
2. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1808)
"Upon the ruler bars are supported the dickies, by means of the five cross bars
marked Ac; two of which pass through mortises made for that purpose in the ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1891)
"... 'cause there was no room for 'em to board; and they used to come on
dickies [donkeys], and some on 'em used to have a dickie for two—ride and tie like. ..."
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