Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dickish

/ˈdɪkɪʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English

Syllables: dick-ish
IPA: /ˈdɪkɪʃ/

17

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of a dick (a contemptible person); offensively unpleasant and vexatious.

American usage; Colloquial; Derogatory

Example Sentences

"I get so annoyed with his dickish behavior."
"AZG has fallen in my eyes into the same category as that of Clayton Cramer, Artemus Ward, and the various passing idiots. i will not answer his posts unless he insults me personally, as i think if we all ignore him he will go away. even if we DON'T all ignore him, i don't want to be responsible for keeping him around... (although it is sexist of me to think AZG is a him. some women are that dickish and stupid after all...)"
"So basically, if any administrative person wanted to be dickish about it, they could take "diciplinary^([sic]) action" it they decided that the presence of a nude body was disruptive (which, unfortunatly,^([sic]) is normally the case)."

Etymology

From dick + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: dick

Usage

Inflected Forms

more dickish (comparative) most dickish (superlative)

Derived Forms

dickishly dickishness

Questions

How do you pronounce dickish?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɪkɪʃ/.
What does dickish mean?: Characteristic of a dick (a contemptible person); offensively unpleasant and vexatious.
Where does dickish come from?: From dick + -ish.

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