1. A man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt
   "He wore a dickey under his dinner jacket jacket";
   - dickie, dicky, shirtfront
    
2. [Brit] A small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater
   "The children loved riding in the dickey-seat of their grandfather's vintage car";
   - dickie [Brit], dicky [Brit], dickey-seat [Brit], dickie-seat [Brit], dicky-seat [Brit]
    
3. [Asia, informal] Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage, shopping or tools
   "he put his golf bag in the dickey";
   - luggage compartment [Brit], automobile trunk [N. Amer], trunk [N. Amer], boot [Brit], dicky [Asia, informal]

1. Unreliable, faulty or not healthy
   "I've got this dickey heart";
   - dicky [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: dickeys

See also: impaired

Type of: backseat, compartment, insert, inset

Part of: auto [informal], autocar [archaic], automobile [N. Amer], car, motor [Brit, informal], motorcar, shirt, wheel [informal], whip [US, informal]

Encyclopedia: Dickey, North Dakota