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dickie

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There's a video from the RSA conference in 2011 with Dickie George, who was the director for Information Assurance at NSA when DES was being reviewed.

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Quick take

A diminutive of the male given name Dick, a short form of the male given name Richard.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dickie gathered in one view.

noun

A diminutive of the male given name Dick, a short form of the male given name Richard.

noun

A surname originating as a patronymic.

noun

Alternative form of dicky. [(colloquial) A louse.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dickie.

Example sentences

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There's a video from the RSA conference in 2011 with Dickie George, who was the director for Information Assurance at NSA when DES was being reviewed.

2

My name is Lukas Dickie and I'm the founder of Changefly.

3

Lots of news and articles, but also "The Craft", a history of Freemason's by John Dickie, was one of the more interesting books.

4

You can see the "Dickie Roberts child star" movie poster.

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Pretty much all work pants (like Dickie's) have this, in addition to regular pockets.

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However, an essay that insists on being flippant and glib through the repetitious use of terms like "Sir Dickie" (to describe Sir David Attenborough, used on ten occasions in the essay) is probably not it.

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Any lawyer in the world would have said, "No, Dickie, we don't just take companies at their word once the money changes hands.

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In a keynote speech, Richard "Dickie" George, former technical director for the NSA Information Assurance Director, flat out denied it claiming that they were non-deterministically generated random numbers[1].

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There was another girl in my town called Ophelia Dickie.

10

Dickie Sanders just wanted to get high not die.

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You could just wear a Dickie's janitor jumpsuit to work, but you don't: you pay some extra amount of money, expressively, to signal something different.

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“ One of the oarsmen taking them ashore was a chap from Tanna called Chief Jack,” former Buckingham Palace spokesman Dickie Arbiter recalled to The Post.

Quote examples

1

Lots of news and articles, but also "The Craft", a history of Freemason's by John Dickie, was one of the more interesting books.

2

You can see the "Dickie Roberts child star" movie poster.

3

However, an essay that insists on being flippant and glib through the repetitious use of terms like "Sir Dickie" (to describe Sir David Attenborough, used on ten occasions in the essay) is probably not it.

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Any lawyer in the world would have said, "No, Dickie, we don't just take companies at their word once the money changes hands.

Proper noun examples

1

Pretty much all work pants (like Dickie's) have this, in addition to regular pockets.

2

There was another girl in my town called Ophelia Dickie.

3

Dickie Sanders just wanted to get high not die.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use dickie in a sentence?

There's a video from the RSA conference in 2011 with Dickie George, who was the director for Information Assurance at NSA when DES was being reviewed.

What does dickie mean?

A diminutive of the male given name Dick, a short form of the male given name Richard.

What part of speech is dickie?

dickie is commonly used as noun.