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dicky-bird

noun dicky-birds · dickey-bird · dicky bird · dickybird · dickie bird

  1. familiar A small bird. The Swan and the Dickey-bird: A Fable.
  2. UK, informal, from Cockney rhyming slang, used especially in negative constructions A word; a brief chat. We've not heard a dicky-bird about anything relating to his birthday.
  3. UK, informal A small thing. I peeked into the cellar but there was nothing there. Not a dicky-bird.

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@misc{dicky_bird_2026,
  title = {dicky-bird},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dicky-bird},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}