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dick

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

dick¹ / dik/ • n. 1. vulgar slang a penis. 2. vulgar slang anything at all: you don't know dick about this—you haven't a clue! • v. 1. [intr.] vulgar slang handle something inexpertly; meddle: he started dicking around with the controls. 2. [tr.] vulgar slang (of a man) have sexual intercourse with (someone). dick² • n. dated, inf. a detective.

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Dick

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Dick ♂ Short form of Richard. The alteration of the initial consonant is supposed to result from the difficulty that English speakers in the Middle Ages had in pronouncing the trilled Norman r-.

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dick

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

dick •artic, brick, chick, click, crick, dick, flick, hand-pick, hic, hick, kick, lick, mick, miskick, nick, pic, pick, prick, quick, rick, shtick, sic, sick, slick, snick, spic, stick, thick, tic, tick, trick, Vic, wick •alcaic, algebraic, Aramaic, archaic, choleraic, Cyrenaic, deltaic, formulaic, Hebraic, Judaic, Mishnaic, Mithraic, mosaic, Pharisaic, prosaic, Ptolemaic, Romaic, spondaic, stanzaic, trochaic •logorrhoeic (US logorrheic), mythopoeic, onomatopoeic •echoic, heroic, Mesozoic, Palaeozoic (US Paleozoic), Stoic •Bewick •disyllabic, monosyllabic, polysyllabic, syllabic •choriambic, dithyrambic, iambic •alembic •amoebic (US amebic) •aerobic, agoraphobic, claustrophobic, homophobic, hydrophobic, phobic, technophobic, xenophobic •cherubic, cubic, pubic •Arabic, Mozarabic •acerbic • apparatchik • dabchick •peachick

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