(slang, derogatory) Dickishness, dickish behavior.
(slang, derogatory) Dickishness, dickish behavior.
"dickery" means: Dickishness, dickish behavior.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"dickery" means: Dickishness, dickish behavior.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
“The BBC reporting on the USA's mega dickery in Iran like it is a legitimate war, like Trump is anything but a criminal.”
"dickery" means: Dickishness, dickish behavior.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
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(slang, vulgar) In a dickish manner.
(US, colloquial, coarse, pejorative) Characteristic of a dick (a contemptible person); offensively unpleasant and vexatious.
The adverb form of 'dickish' — meaning in a manner that is needlessly rude, selfish, unhelpful, or aggressive. If someone acts dickishly, they're being unpleasant in a way that feels deliberate: cutting people off, ignoring requests, talking down to others, or generally making life difficult without any real justification. The word is satisfying because it is very precise — not violently bad, not criminally bad, just reliably, irritatingly, small-mindedly bad. Widely used online and in casual speech among adults.
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) Mean; rude; or stupid.
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