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
Anyone who prefers to experience Spielberg’s Holocaust drama with the suffering and distress expunged may have problems other than a dicky bladder.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2019
Even if you’re not feeling peaky, it might be worth faking a dicky hip during a boring bit.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2019
A dicky was a shirt front made of stiffly starched muslin.
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
They had indeed been beaten at the polls as they had expected, but in an honest tulzie with dickies the parish would hear a different tale.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
