Definition of "dickey"

dickey

noun
plural dickeys
1. Alternative form of dicky
  Quotations
  ...and she was just in time to see Mr. Boyne Sillery hand her aunt into a carriage, jump in himself, when it drove off with a rapidity which scarcely allowed her to observe that a large imperial was on the top, and her aunt's servant, with a huge bandbox, on the dickey.
  1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], pages 134–135
adjective
comparative dickier, superlative dickiest
1. Alternative form of dicky (“doubtful, troublesome, in poor condition”)