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say it: DIK-ee
dickey is a noun and adjective meaning "a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dickey come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.