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'Dicky-birds' became established as a Cockney Rhyming Slang term for 'words', in the mid 20th century. The first record of it in print is in the 1932 'P. P.' Rhyming Slang:" Word... Dicky bird." So, 'not a dicky-bird' means 'not a word', that is, silence, especially in the context where a spoken or written word might have been expected - for ...
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To understand this expression, it is helpful to know the literal meaning of dicky bird. A dicky bird was a generic term for any little bird, such as a sparrow or chickadee, that was common in England in the 1700s. Dicky bird came to be slang for word due to the common Cockney practice of replacing one word with another rhyming word. Because word rh...
Here is an example that involves two college students discussing whether or not a third friend of theirs will show up to the party they are throwing. Robin: You’re going back to London soon, aren’t you? Harry: Yes, so I’m throwing myself a goodbye party. Would you like to come? Robin: Of course! What about Linda? Did you invite her? Harry: Yes, I s...
This excerpt is about how better roads eliminated traffic jams, as well as complaints. 1. “From 7am on Griffith Avenue, there would be lines of trucks. Now you come out, and there’s nothing there. It eliminated all of that and there was never a dicky bird again,” he goes on. –Irish Times This excerpt is about when the British prime minister who res...
Dicky bird. Children’s talk for a small bird dates from the late 18th century but the origin is obscure, perhaps echoic of the sounds that small birds make and occurs in various spellings dickey, dickie etc. It is also rhyming slang for word, dicky bird/word, as in “I won’t say a dicky bird” or “not a dicky bird” meaning not a word.
Dicky bird is rhyming slang for ‘word’. 1988 Glenn Patterson Burning Your Own Sammy put his ear to where he thought its heart ought to be: not a dickybird. See also: bird, dicky, not. Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017. See also: (not) a dicky bird. dicky. not say a dicky bird. give (one) the bird.
19. Aug. 2022 · Dicky/Dickie. Dicky is one of those Cockney terms that’s a shortened form of a loner phrase. Dicky is short for “dicky bird,” which around the 1700s meant any small bird common in the UK like a sparrow or chickadee. By the time Cockney rhyming slang came around a century later, they used the “bird” as a rhyme for “word.”
not a dicky bird. idiom old-fashioned informal. Add to word list. Add to word list. nothing at all: We haven't heard a dicky bird from (= spoken to or received a letter from) Riza recently. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Something, anything, nothing, and everything. across-the-board.
Dicky bird is rhyming slang for ‘word’. 1988 Glenn Patterson Burning Your Own Sammy put his ear to where he thought its heart ought to be: not a dickybird. See also: bird, dicky, not. Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017. See also: (not) a dicky bird. dicky. not say a dicky bird. give (one) the bird. give someone the bird.
