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dickybird
noun- a little bird UK, 1781
Childish. As in the traditional nursery rhyme, “Two little dicky-birds sitting on a wall / One named Peter, one named Paul”. - a word; hence, a thing of little value, the smallest thing UK, 1932
Rhyming slang; most often given in full and usually in the negative context, “not say a word”, hence the second part of this sense. In the theatre, “dickies” are an actor’s script, “the words”. - BILL: Don’t exagggerate. I wasn’t bone idle last year, I must have done some work somewhere, even if it was just helping around the house. TONY: You did not. Nothing. Not a dickey bird. — Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Hancock’s Half Hour, 30 December 1956
- “I asked everyone that can be asked,” Cross says, “and nobody knows a dicky bird.” — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 6, 1974
- [N]o-one’s said a dickybird. — Martin King & Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 124, 1999
- Alfonso doesn’t say a dicky bird, just goes over and nuts Wells between the eyes. — John King, Human Punk, p. 6, 2000
- [O]ne of our number asked the inevitable question surrounding any actor of particularly mature years. “But can he still do the dickies, darling?” — The Guardian, 5 September 2001
▶ not a dickybird
nothing UK- “What’s going on in there? can you see anything?”–“Not a dicky bird!” — Beale, 1975
- The Roux brothers have been honoured in France, the country of their birth, but in the country which has benefited immeasurably from their energy, enterprise and excellence, not a dicky bird. — The Guardian, 20 April 2002
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