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General Slang
Dickie Dirt
· noun · cockney
Shirt.
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Definitions
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A shirt. Usually the smart one you'd iron for a wedding, christening or court appearance.
“Stick a clean Dickie Dirt on, we're going up west.”
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Dickie Dirt In A Sentence
Stick a clean Dickie Dirt on, we're going up west.
Origin & Usage
Cockney rhyming slang where 'Dickie Dirt' rhymes with 'shirt'. Likely reinforced by 'dickie' already meaning a detachable shirt-front in 19th-century English.
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