dickish
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈdɪkɪʃ/
- Offensive
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maleducado
- His comment was so dickish that it offended everyone in the room.
Yeah, it's good to do, but it's dickish as well, you know, dickish movements we were doing.
- Yeah, it's good to do, but it's dickish as well, you know, dickish movements we were doing.
Examples
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Well, that was really dickish.
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I did some pretty dickish things because I didn't know what I was doing.
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So basically they did it in the most dickish possible way.
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Enhancing your performance, then showing off when you win, would be dickish.
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Anyway, after a while, I stopped being polite and started being openly dickish to this lady.
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Is he/she just being dickish, or is there some larger goal here?
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When they persist in being wrong and do so in dickish ways, they get told they are being dickish.
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Otherwise, Scott, there's no need to be dickish with the sock puppet thing.
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Do you think that Chris Christie's veto of the gay marriage bill is not only dickish, but also extremely short sighted?
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One of those statements is dickish, and one is honest and unblinkingly confronts the issue head-on.
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Synonyms
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1.0
Not polite or showing little respect for others
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5.1
Very unpleasant in a way that makes people angry or upset
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3.8
Speaking in a direct, plain way that can sound rude
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2.3
Not showing good manners or respect to other people
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6.7
Being short and rude in the way someone speaks
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6.5
Showing little concern for other people's feelings
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8.2
Being rude and not caring about other people's feelings or manners
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9.7
Being rude and acting like you are better than other people
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7.2
Rude or too bold toward someone, sometimes playful
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5.5
Not polite to other people and showing little respect
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8.2
Clumsy and rude in the way someone moves or acts
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6.3
Not polite and often rude to others
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8.5
Being rude and mean to other people
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Being rude and getting upset by small things
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8.7
Rude or cheeky when talking back to people in charge
Behaving rudely and roughly so other people feel uncomfortable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
dickish = dick (semi-transparent) = dick + ish
The adjective is formed by adding the productive suffix '-ish' to a slang noun, so learners who don't know the slang base may not infer the meaning.
Etymology
Dickish comes from the slang word dick, which began as a short name and later came to mean a rude or unpleasant person, plus the ending -ish meaning 'like'. So dickish means 'like a dick' and is used for someone behaving rudely or inconsiderately.