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dickie

dickie

9.9
A small piece worn at the front of a shirt to make it look like a full shirt
  • noun
  • /ˈdɪki/
  • Archaic
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  • He wore a crisp white dickie under his jacket for the formal event.

Examples

  • The tailor suggested adding a dickie to the outfit for a sharper appearance.

  • To complete his vintage look, he opted for a black dickie beneath his blazer.

  • Well, but what I was going to say was at the Kevin Smith thing he was talking about, he wears he takes socks and makes arm dickies for them.

  • "Burnside was saturated in guilt up to his starched little dickie.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

shirtfront
vsdickie
1 6.4

The front part of a shirt, often the formal piece worn with a tuxedo

is the specific detachable insert rather than the whole front of a shirt
dickey
vsdickie
  • Archaic
9.9

A separate front shirt piece worn under a jacket to look like a full shirt

is the same in meaning but uses an alternate spelling
Dickies
vsdickie
  • Archaic
9.5

A small cloth piece worn under a jacket to look like a full shirt

is narrower, used specifically as a starched front for men's shirts

How Formal

shirtfront
1 6.4
dress shirt
9 2.7
dickie
  • Archaic
9.9
casual
81 1.3

Surface Forms

dickie singular
dickies plural

Etymology

Dickie (shirt front) follows the same idea: it is a small, removable piece that makes a shirt look full. A helpful way to remember it is that the ending -ie means 'small', so a dickie is a 'small' shirt front you put on.