Meaning & use
dickey
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A detachable false shirt front worn to look like part of a complete shirt.
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He wore a dickey under his jacket to save the trouble of ironing a full dress shirt.
The old dickey had a stiff collar that made it look formal from a distance.
A note on using this word
Also spelled 'dicky'; the clothing sense is now old-fashioned and mostly found in historical or theatrical contexts.
Another way to use it
2. adjective
(British informal) Shaky, unsound, or not entirely well.
He said his dickey knee was acting up before the match.
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