dick

• dih (pronunciation spelling or Internet slang)

• enPR: dĭk, IPA^(key): /dɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪk

Ultimately from Dick, pet form of the name Richard. The name Dick came to mean everyman, whence the word acquired its other meanings.

dick (countable and uncountable, plural dicks)

1. (countable, obsolete) A male person.
2. (countable and uncountable, informal, vulgar, slang) The penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

   • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 83:

     THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: "Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police."

   • 2016 August 17, Tara Jacoby, “Don't Think With Your Dick”, in Jezebel‎^[2], archived from the original on 21 August 2019:

     If you simply stop letting your dick do the talking and listen to what others want, you can avoid a lot of difficult situations.

   • 2020, AisStunna, 0:18 from the start, in TOP Stunna Boy Instagram (pedo) Moments‎^[3]:

     I'm over here stroking my dick. I got lotion on my dick right now. I'm just stroking my shit. I'm horny as fuck man I'm a freak man like for real.

4. (countable, vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive) A contemptible or obnoxious person; a jerk; traditionally, especially, a male jerk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jerk

   That dude is such a dick.

   She's being such a dick about all this.

   • 2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue‎^[4], archived from the original on 1 September 2024:

     Liam has more beefs than an episode of The Bear—with Damon “that dick out of blur” Albarn, the Spice Girls’ (Mel C (who offered to fight Liam at the Brits), and, in a seemingly neverending feud, with Robbie “fat fucking idiot” Williams.

5. (uncountable, US, Canada, vulgar, slang, uncommon) Absolutely nothing.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nothing

   Last weekend I did dick.

   • 1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones):

     Cool, whatever you say, slick, but I need to tell you something about all your skills. As of right now, they mean precisely… dick.

6. (uncountable, vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse with a man.

   Antonym: pussy

   • 1991, quoted in Andrew Parker, Nationalisms & Sexualities, page 309:

     You better try and get some dick and take your mind off this bullshit.

   • 2020, Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin, Jac Vanek, Act Like a Lady […] , Rodale Books, →ISBN, page 284:

     Much like quicksand, dicksand is what girls get caught in when they're obsessed with their crush, boyfriend, husband, or anyone giving them dick.

• genitals

dick (third-person singular simple present dicks, present participle dicking, simple past and past participle dicked) (transitive, slang, vulgar)

1. To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up).

   Dude, don't let them dick you around like that!

2. (of a man) To penetrate sexually.
   • 1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:

     Homeboy, throw in the towel / Your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell

   • 1996, Clarence Major, Dirty bird blues:

     Listen, this old gal we going to see probably don't like liquor and drinking, so be cool. I'm just gon borrow a few bucks off her. I ain't never dicked her or nothing.

• (have sexual intercourse with): bone, go to bed with, schlong; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

A shortening and alteration of de(t)ec(tive).

dick (plural dicks)

2. (dated, US, slang) A detective.

   private dick, railroad dick

   • 1937 November 1, Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile:

     “I am a detective,” said Hercule Poirot with the modest air of one who says “I am a king.”
     “Good God!” The young man seemed seriously taken aback. “Do you mean that girl actually totes about a dumb dick?”

• private dick
• clever dick
• house dick

A shortening and alteration of dec(laration).

dick (plural dicks)

1. (obsolete) A declaration.
   • 1875, Mrs. George Croft Huddleston, Bluebell:

     "He seems to set a deal of store by her, though. There's some young 'ooman at home, where she lives, I'd take my dying dick."

From a Cumbric *deg, corresponding to Welsh deg, from Proto-Brythonic *deg.

dick

2. (Cumbria) Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting.

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

• Wirght, Peter (1995), Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 7
• Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007), Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number‎^[5], Australian Council for Educational Research, →ISBN, retrieved 17 May 2008, page 75
• Varvogli, Aliki (2002), Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide‎^[6], Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, retrieved 17 May 2008, pages 24-25

• CDKI, cdki

From Middle High German dicke, from Old High German dicki, dicchi (akin to Old Saxon thikki), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī.

Compare Low German dick, Dutch dik, English thick, Danish tyk.

• IPA^(key): /dɪk/

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -ɪk

dick (strong nominative masculine singular dicker, comparative dicker, superlative am dicksten)

1. thick
2. fat
3. swollen

• dünn

• dicklich
• dickstielig
• dickfellig
• dickhäutig
• Dickmaulrüssler

• “dick”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[7] (in German)
• “dick” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “dick” in Duden online

From Middle High German dicke, from Old High German dicki, dicchi, from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī.

• IPA^(key): /tik/
• Rhymes: -ik

dick (comparative dicker, superlative dickest)

1. thick

   Das Brett is zweu Zentimeter dick.

   The board is two meters thick.

2. fat

   Sie is en dicke Fraa.

   She is a fat woman.

3. pregnant

   Mein Schwesder is schun nommol dick.

   My sister is no longer pregnant.

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “dick”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 34

From Middle High German dicke, from Old High German dicchi. Compare German dick, Dutch dik, English thick.

dick

1. thick
2. close
3. stout