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Dick

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //dɪk//

A diminutive of the male given name Richard, also used as a formal given name.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Richard, also used as a formal given name.

    Lascivious Edward, and thou perjur'd George, / And thou mis-shapen Dick, I tell ye all,

    You may know what one man thinks of another by his manner of calling him. Thomas and James and Richard and William are stupid young gentlemen; Tom and Jem and Dick and Will are fine spirited fellows.

  2. 2

    A surname transferred from the given name.

Etymology

Rhyming nickname for Rick, pet form of Richard.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).