dicky
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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
Not sure if that will make a difference to a man with a dicky tummy.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2015
Johnny wore his tuxedo and derby and a fresh collar and dicky.
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
Some men went so far as to wear "dickies," that is to say, false shirt fronts made of paper, but this was considered a silly cheat.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
Ye needna bather your heids ahoot a cab," says I. "I'm wyser than the twa o' ye puttin' thegither; so keep on your dickies.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
