dicky (plural dickies) (colloquial) A louse. (Cockney rhyming slang) Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
dicky in British English
or dickey (ˈdɪkɪ ) adjectiveWord forms: dickier or dickiest. British informal. in bad condition; shaky, unsteady, or unreliable. I feel a bit dicky today.
'Dicky-birds' became established as a Cockney Rhyming Slang term for 'words', in the mid 20th century. The first record of it in print is in the 1932 'P. P.' Rhyming Slang: " Word... Dicky bird."
The meaning "penis" is attested from 1891 in Farmer's slang dictionary (possibly British army slang). Meaning "detective" is recorded from 1908, perhaps as a shortened variant of. As a verb, "to bungle; to waste time," also "to cheat, treat badly," by 1969, American English (often with off or around).
weak, especially in health, and likely to fail or suffer from problems: Grandad's got a dicky heart.
In clothing for men, a dickey (also dickie and dicky, and tuxedo front in the U.S.) is a type of shirtfront that is worn with black tie (tuxedo) and with white tie evening clothes. The dickey is usually attached to the shirt collar and then tucked into the waistcoat or cummerbund.
Carpet is Cockney Rhyming Slang for 3! Postman Pat.
Cockney sparrow: Refers to the archetype of a cheerful, talkative Cockney.
Wind and Kite is Cockney slang for Web site.
" Dicky Dirt " Meaning: Cockney rhyming slang for shirt.
Dicky is a given name or a nickname, often of Richard, sometimes of William.
The term means watch, which stemmed from a 'fob' watch which was a pocket watch attached to the body with a small chain. The kettle used to boil on the hob of a stove… hence the rhyme.
On the subject of 'bins' this expression is the cockney rhyming slang for glasses, as in reading glasses, so if someone is having trouble looking up a number in a telephone book you might say put on your 'bins'.
Whilst this is not cemented in fact, the widely held belief is that the terms came from soldiers returning to Britain from India. Old Indian rupee banknotes had animals on them and it is said that the 500 rupee note had a monkey on it and the 25 rupee featured a pony.
to pamper or spoil by indulgence. noun. 2. British informal. a mate (esp in the phrase old cocker)
West Ham United is traditionally a club of working class Londoners who often relate to themselves as 'the cockney boys', while Millwall (although being set in working class London) identifies more with the geographical area (South London) where they are situated, than with their heritage.
Well there are of course still Cockneys in London but less and less as the years go by and in many inner-city areas, this ancient London English is being replaced by the more exotic Multicultural London English, with it's youthfulness and numerous ethnic influences.
Haddock and Bloater is Cockney slang for Motor.
Gaff. In Ireland, the word 'gaff' means 'house'. The term 'free gaff' is often used by teenagers to describe the situation when their parents go away for a night, usually meaning there will be a party. Using 'gaff' to mean house is apparently also common in Scotland, parts of England and Wales.
bottle = two pounds, or earlier tuppence (2d), from the cockney rhyming slang: bottle of spruce = deuce (= two pounds or tuppence). Spruce probably mainly refers to spruce beer, made from the shoots of spruce fir trees which is made in alcoholic and non-alcoholic varieties.
Recorded as Dickie, Dicky and Dickey, this is an Anglo-Scottish surname. It is a diminutive form of the very popular nmedieval personal name 'Richard'. This is a compound of the Germanic elements "ric" meaning power plus "hard", meaning hardy, brave or strong.
""Toby" means "road" in this context, but it isn't rhyming slang. It seems to come from about 1811. It is derived from the language of Irish travellers who use the word "tober" to mean road. Another related expression is the toby meaning highway robbery. High toby meaning highway robbery on horseback.
Kermit is Cockney slang for Road.
"Derby Kell" is old Cockney rhyming slang for belly ("Derby Kelly"). "Blow out your kite" means "fill your stomach". It uses the word kite (also kyte), a dialect word, originally derived from an Old English word for the womb which, by extension, came to mean the belly.