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strictly dickly

strictly dickly

1 9.9
A person who is only attracted to men and says this as a joke about themselves
  • idiom
  • NSFW
translation icon : exclusivamente gay
  • During the party, he openly declared, 'I'm strictly dickly, just so you know!'

Examples

  • I felt very detached throughout the experience, and I didn't really 'get' anything from it other than a reaffirmation that I'm 'strictly dickly'.

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  • He joked that he's strictly dickly, showing he only dates men.

  • When asked about his dating preferences, he confidently replied, 'I'm strictly dickly.'

Synonyms

gay
vsstrictly dickly
∞ 3.5

Attracted to people of the same sex

is used only for exclusive attraction to men in a humorous slang way

Surface Forms

strictly dickly positive

Morphology

strictly + dickly

The meaning is partially inferable because 'strictly' signals exclusivity and the nonstandard adjective 'dickly' transparently derives from the slang noun 'dick' (male genital), so a learner who recognises that slang can deduce 'exclusively attracted to men'. However, 'dickly' is nonstandard, vulgar slang and requires sociocultural and register knowledge that many B1 learners lack, so the sense is not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

Strictly dickly likely comes from strictly ('only') plus dickly from the slang 'dick' for a man's private part, so imagine someone joking they like only men. That's why it means 'only' sexually attracted to men.