dicty

dicty

Conceited or pompous. She's definitely gotten more dicty now that she makes so much money at her new job.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dicty

(ˈdɪkti)
mod. snobbish. (Black.) That dicty lady told me I could come to the back to get a tip if I wanted.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • pillow-biter
  • out of one's
  • #dead
  • save someone's skin
  • other than
  • other than (something)
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy
  • let something drop
References in periodicals archive
TV Trixie Silverview Spott Crayford 8.34 Wise Signal Crayford 9.24 Dicty Dan Crayford 9.40
Silverview easy to spot; TONIGHT'S TV TRIXIE
When Strassmann and Queller began to work with Dicty in 1998, one of the first things they discovered was that the amoebae sometimes cheat.
Why Life Begins with One Single Cell
The researchers found that about a third of wild-collected Dicty are farmers.
Like humans, amoebae too pack a lunch before traveling
Armstrong later told Morgenstern the reason he left Henderson's band was that the "dicty bandleader," college-educated, light-skinned and prone to look down on dark blacks, wouldn't let him sing, except occasionally for black audiences or for novelty and comic effect.
Coronation by Cornet
Many lower-class migrants complained that, in the established churches, they were snubbed by "dicty" upper-class members who looked down on the migrants' "shabby clothes and Southern grammar" (Light, 1972, p.
The storefront church ministry in African American communities of the urban North during the Great Migration: the making of an ethnic niche
7.59 (450m): Bulletproof Monk, Slaney Medusa, Dicty Blue Bob, Suzy's Boy (M), Faughan Connie (M), Glenside Poppy ( W ).
SPORT IN BRIEF
Other good pointers on the card include Aero Joker (10.53) in Heat 1 of the Peter Bussey Memorial Trophy and Dicty Dan (11.23am) in the hurdle race.
Wise is sending out right Signals
Race three on the programme is an H2 hurdles contest for which Dicty Dan stands out like a sore thumb.
Dan looks the man
The nightclub of choice for this generation of expatriate musicians was not the relatively dicty and expensive Bricktop's, the canonical restaurant so beloved in histories of African-American Paris, but the suitably funky Chat Qui Peche, where the younger black experimental musicians socialized with the more sympathetic members of the older generation.
Chapter six: the AACM in Paris
In fact, even the successful African Americans he believes are intermingled in the Harlem subway crowds-"the doctors, the preachers, some lawyers"--he characterizes as likely" 'hincty' and 'dicty' "--that is, snobbish folk who put on airs to remove themselves from the black public that scrapes to make a living in a white-dominated world (61).
Reclaiming the Frontier: Oscar Micheaux as Black Turnerian
9.32 (450m): Burnt Oak Barney, Private Chancer, Dicty Blue Bob, Lorraine's Flyer (M), Fencing Panels (M), Upland Lee (M).
SPORT IN BRIEF
Reserves: Away Day Rex (A) (M), Ban Run (B) (M), Delphin Izzy (C), Dicty Blue Bob (D), Feystown Finale (E), Homestead Sally (F), Loughside Storm (G), Night Time Bolt (H), Slaneyside Vicky (I).
SPORT IN BRIEF
10.30 (450m): Monkspath Mistry, Glannabell, Dicty Blue Bob, Alphonso (M), Gainstown Caz (M), Deancroft Jack (M).
SPOT IN BRIEF
Reserves: Amore Baci (M), Ballymac Xavi (W), Dicty Blue Bob, Glannabell, Hades Express, Miami Rainbow, Richie's Rosari, Sponge Bob Lee (M), Tullymurry Eve (M), Witton Bassey (M).
SPORT IN BRIEF
8.58 (450m): Harsh Lady, Canyon Creek, Dicty Blue Bob, Ballymac Dora (M), Express Episode (M), Tullymurry Radar (M).
SPORT IN BRIEF