dick

See also: Dick

English

Alternative forms

• dih (pronunciation spelling or Internet slang)

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭk, IPA^(key): /dɪk/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɪk

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs

Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor.

Proto-Germanic *rīks

Proto-West Germanic *rīk

Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.?

Proto-Germanic *harduz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *hardu

Proto-West Germanic *Rīkuhardu

Old High German Rihhart

Middle High German Rihardbor.

Medieval Latin Richardusder.

Old French Richardbor.

Middle English Rycharde

English Richardder.

English Rickder.

English Dickder.

English dick

Ultimately from Dick, pet form of the name Richard. The name Dick came to mean everyman, whence the word acquired its other meanings.

Noun

dick (countable and uncountable, plural dicks)

1. (countable, obsolete) A male person.
3. (countable and uncountable, informal, vulgar, slang) The penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:genitalia

   • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 83:

     THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: "Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police."

   • 2016 August 17, Tara Jacoby, “Don't Think With Your Dick”, in Jezebel‎^[2], archived from the original on 21 August 2019:

     If you simply stop letting your dick do the talking and listen to what others want, you can avoid a lot of difficult situations.

   • 2020, AisStunna, 0:18 from the start, in TOP Stunna Boy Instagram (pedo) Moments‎^[3]:

     I'm over here stroking my dick. I got lotion on my dick right now. I'm just stroking my shit. I'm horny as fuck man I'm a freak man like for real.

5. (countable, vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive) A contemptible or obnoxious person; a jerk; traditionally, especially, a male jerk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jerk

   That dude is such a dick.

   She's being such a dick about all this.

   • 2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue‎^[4], archived from the original on 1 September 2024:

     Liam has more beefs than an episode of The Bear—with Damon “that dick out of blur” Albarn, the Spice Girls’ (Mel C (who offered to fight Liam at the Brits), and, in a seemingly neverending feud, with Robbie “fat fucking idiot” Williams.

6. (uncountable, US, Canada, vulgar, slang, uncommon) Absolutely nothing.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nothing

   Last weekend I did dick.

   • 1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones):

     Cool, whatever you say, slick, but I need to tell you something about all your skills. As of right now, they mean precisely… dick.

7. (uncountable, vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse with a man.

   Antonym: pussy

   • 1991, quoted in Andrew Parker, Nationalisms & Sexualities, page 309:

     You better try and get some dick and take your mind off this bullshit.

   • 2020, Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin, Jac Vanek, Act Like a Lady […] , Rodale Books, →ISBN, page 284:

     Much like quicksand, dicksand is what girls get caught in when they're obsessed with their crush, boyfriend, husband, or anyone giving them dick.

Derived terms

• anteater-dick
• anteater dick
• baby dick
• bag of dicks
• bald dick
• bee's dick
• be on someone's dick
• big dick energy
• boydick
• boyfriend dick
• catch a dick
• cheesedick
• chick with a dick
• cinder dick
• coke dick
• contradick
• coon-dick
• coon dick
• crystal dick
• deca dick
• dickache
• dick all
• dick appointment
• dickass
• dickbag
• dickbait
• dickbiscuit
• dickbrain, dick-brain
• dickbreath
• dickbutt
• dickcheese, dick cheese, dick-cheese
• dicked
• dickery
• dickey
• dickface
• dickfer
• dickfest
• dickflesh
• dickfuck
• dickfucker
• dickgirl
• dick-head, dickhead
• dickheaded
• dick-headedly
• dickhole
• dicking
• dickish
• dickitude
• dick joke
• dick juice
• dickless
• dicklet
• dicklick
• dicklicker
• dicklike
• dickling
• dick lit
• dickly
• dickmatize
• dickmatized
• dick-measuring contest
• dick milk
• dick move
• dick munch
• dickmunch
• dickmuncher, dick muncher
• Dickney
• dicknose
• dicknut
• dickologist
• dickology
• dick pic, dickpic
• dick-print, dick print
• dickride
• dickrider
• dick root
• dicksack
• dickshit
• dicksicle
• dickskin
• dickslap
• dicksmith
• dick smoker
• dicksneeze
• dick snot
• dicksplash
• dicksplat
• dickstain
• dickster
• dickstring
• dicksuck
• dicksucker
• dicksucking
• dicktard
• dicktator
• dicktatorship
• dicktionary
• dick togs
• dickture
• dick up
• dickwad
• dick-waving
• dick-waving contest
• dickweasel
• dickweed
• dick weed
• dickwhacker
• dickwipe
• dickwit
• dicky
• donkeydick
• donkey dick
• dope dick
• double-dick
• eat a bag of dicks
• eat a dick
• get one's dick wet
• girldick
• groaty dick
• horsedick
• horse dick
• kissed on the dick by a fairy
• kiss someone on the dick
• let crazy stick its dick in you
• limp-dick, limpdick, limp dick
• lumpy dick
• megadick
• microdick
• needle dick
• niggerdick
• noodle dick
• pain in the dick
• pencil dick
• pimple dick, pimple-dick
• pindick
• private dick
• shitdick
• slippery dick
• small dick energy
• stick one's dick in crazy
• suck dick
• suck donkey dick
• suck my dick
• suck someone's dick
• superdick
• swinging dick
• swing one's dick around
• t-dick
• whiskey dick
• with one's dick in one's hand

Descendants

• → Finnish: (colloquial, humorous) dikki

Translations

penis — see also penis

• Afrikaans: peester, piel (af), piepie, roede, swingel, tietie (af), totter, totterman, tottie, tril, trul, voël (af)
• Albanian: kar m
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: коток (kotok)

• Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: teely, lingie, bud
• Arabic: زُب (ar) m (zub), زُبْر m (zubr), أَيْر m (ʔayr)

  Egyptian Arabic: زب m (zeb), زبر m (zubr)

  Libyan Arabic: زب m (zeb)

  Moroccan Arabic: زب m (zabb, zubb)

  Najdi Arabic: زب m (zubb, zibb, zebb)

  North Levantine Arabic: أير m (ʔer)

  South Levantine Arabic: أير m (ʔayr)

  Yemeni Arabic: زب m (zub) (Hadrami)

• Armenian: կլիր (klir)
• Azerbaijani: sik
• Bahamian Creole: tonky
• Bashkir: ҡутаҡ (qutaq)
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} zil
• Belarusian: хуй m (xuj)
• Bengali: ধন (bn) (dhon)
• Buginese: laso
• Bulgarian: хуй (bg) m (huj), кур (bg) m (kur), пишка (bg) f (piška) (childish)
• Catalan: piu (ca) m, pixa (ca) f, quirra f, vit (ca) m, carall (ca) m, cigala (ca) f, titola f, tita (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鳩 / 鸠 (gau¹), 𡳞 (lan²)

  Hokkien: 𡳞鳥 / 𡳞鸟 (zh-min-nan) (lān-chiáu)

  Mandarin: 雞巴 / 鸡巴 (zh) (jība), 屌 (zh) (diǎo), 鳥 / 鸟 (zh) (diǎo)

• Czech: péro (cs) m, čurák (cs) m, kokot (cs) m, ocas (cs) m, šulin (cs) m (in Moravia), kláda (cs) m (especially a big cock), pták (cs) m (slang), chuj (cs) m
• Danish: pik (da), diller c, kødfløjte c
• Dutch: lul (nl) m, pik (nl) m, piemel (nl) m, leuter (nl)
• Esperanto: kaco (eo), vosto (eo), vergo (eo)
• Estonian: munn (et), türa (et)
• Extremaduran: caraliu
• Faroese: murtur m, snillur m, fansur m
• Finnish: kyrpä (fi), kulli (fi), muna (fi), mulkku (fi), kalu (fi), kikkeli (fi), pippeli (fi), jorma (fi), kanki (fi), slerssi (fi), slerba, sladdi
• French: bite (fr) f, paf (fr) m, pine (fr) f, queue (fr) f, teub (fr) f, vit (fr) m, zob (fr) m, sguègue (fr) m

  Old French: vit m

• Frisian:

  West Frisian: lul

• Galician: pirola f, carallo (gl) m, gaita (gl) f, nabo (gl) m, pito (gl) m, pixa (gl) f, caralla (gl) f, ferramenta (gl) f, pistola (gl) f, pistolo m
• Georgian: ყლე (q̇le)
• German: Schwanz (de) m, Schlange (de) f, Penis (de) m, Pimmel (de) m, Zumpf (de) m, Zumpferl (de) m, Zipfel (de) m
• Greek: ψωλή (el) f (psolí) (slang, obscene), πούτσος (el) m (poútsos) (obscene), πούτσα (el) f (poútsa) (obscene), καυλί (el) n (kavlí) (slang, obscene), πούλος (el) m (poúlos), πούλλος m (poúllos), παπάρι (el) n (papári) (slang), παπάρα (el) f (papára) (slang)

  Ancient Greek: κέρκος f (kérkos) (slang)

  Cypriot Greek: βίλλος m (bíllos)

• Haitian Creole: zozo
• Hebrew: זַיִן (he) m (záyin), שמש (he) (shamash)
• Hindi: लुंड (hi) (luṇḍ), लंड (hi) m (laṇḍ)
• Hungarian: hímvessző (hu), pénisz (hu), fasz (hu), pöcs (hu), farok (hu)
• Icelandic: typpi (is) n, drjóli (is) m, göndull m
• Indonesian: burung (id), kontol (id) (slang, obscene), titit (id), kanjut (id), peler
• Interlingua: pene, virga
• Irish: bod (ga)
• Italian: pisello (it) m, cazzo (it) m, uccello (it) m, minchia (it) f
• Japanese: ちんこ (ja) (chinko), ちんぽ (ja) (chinpo), ちんちん (ja) (chinchin), (of children) おちんちん (ja) (o-chinchin), ぽこちん (pokochin), まら (mara), ちんぽこ (ja) (chinpoko)
• Javanese: kontol, peli (jv)
• Kazakh: қотақ (kk) (qotaq)
• Khmer: ក្ដ (km) (kdɑɑ)
• Korean: 좆 (ko) (jot), 자지 (ko) (jaji), 고추 (ko) (gochu)
• Kyrgyz: коток (kotok)
• Ladino: pata f, pupuna f
• Lao: ກະດໍ (ka dǭ), ໂຄ້ຽ (khōi), ບ້ອງ (bǭng), ແບ້ນ (bǣn)
• Latin: verpa f, mentula (la) f, mūtō (la) m
• Latvian: vdaikts m, daikts (lv) m, pipele, pimpis
• Lithuanian: bỹbis m, bybỹs m
• Luhya: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: кур m (kur)
• Malay: konek (ms)
• Maltese: żobb m
• Marathi: लवडा m (lavḍā)
• Minangkabau: kalempong (min)
• Navajo: achoʼ
• Norwegian: kuk (no), kukk (no) m, pikk (no) m
• Ojibwe: niinag (inanimate, possessed (first person: my penis))
• Pashto: غيڼ (ps) (ǧiṇ)
• Persian: کیر (fa) (kir)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: horn, pepe
• Polish: chuj (pl) m anim, kutas (pl) m anim, pyta (pl) f, wał (pl) m anim, fiut (pl) m anim, pała (pl) f, kuśka (pl)
• Portuguese: caralho (pt) m, picha (pt) f, pica (pt) f, jeba (pt) f, verga (pt) f, pau (pt) m, pinto (pt) m, cacete (pt) m, vara (pt) f, rola (pt) f, piroca (pt), bilau (pt) m, camandro m, catano (pt) m
• Romanian: pulă (ro) f, sulă (ro) f, sculă (ro) f, măciucă (ro) f, mădular (ro) n, miel (ro) m, cocoșel (ro) m (childish)
• Russian: хуй (ru) m (xuj), хер (ru) m (xer), хрен (ru) m (xren), елда (ru) m (jelda) (obsolete), член (ru) m (člen) (mild), писю́н (ru) m (pisjún) (of children), пи́ська (ru) f (písʹka) (also for vagina), пипи́ска (ru) f (pipíska)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: cillu, návli, cissá

• Scottish Gaelic: bod
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: курац m, кита f

  Latin: kurac (sh) m, kita (sh) f kurčina, pimpek (sh), ćuna f

• Sicilian: minchia (scn) f
• Slovak: kokot (sk) m, vták (sk) m
• Slovene: kurec (sl) m, kurac m, klinac, kurc, tič, lulek, lulček, batina, cura
• Spanish: (all of these words are vulgar) bicho (es) m (Puerto Rico), cipote (es) m (Spain), huevo (es) m (Dominican Republic, Venezuela), chile (es) (El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala) ñafle (es) m (Chile), paloma (es) f (Venezuela), picha (es) f (Costa Rica), pichi (es) m (Bolivia), pichula (es) f (Peru), pico (es) f (Chile), pija (es) f (Argentina), pinga (es) f (Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Spain's Canary Islands, Venezuela), pito (es) m (Mexico), polla (es) f (Spain standard usage), tranca (es) f (Spain), turca (es) f (Nicaragua), verga (es) f (now especially Mexico, El Salvador, Argentina, Paraguay) carajo (es) m, picha (es) f, pipe (es) m, pirula (es) f, pirulo (es) m, poste (es) m, chulapi f (festive, Peru), nepe (es) m (internet slang), tula (es) (Chile, Spain)
• Sundanese: kanjut
• Swedish: kuk (sv) c, pitt (sv) c, balle (sv) c
• Tagalog: titi (tl)
• Tajik: кир (kir), кер (ker)
• Tamil: ஆண்குறி (ta) (āṇkuṟi)
• Tatar: кутак (qutaq)
• Telugu: మొడ్డ (moḍḍa)
• Thai: ควย (th) (kuai), จู๋ (th) (jǔu), กระจู๋ (th), เจี๊ยว (th) (jíao), กระเจี๊ยว (th) (grà-jíao), ดอ (th) (dɔɔ), กระดอ (th) (grà-dɔɔ), นกเขา (th) (nók-kǎo)
• Turkish: yarak (tr) (also yarrak), sik (tr), çük (tr), kobra (tr), pipi (tr), kuş (tr)
• Turkmen: çük
• Udmurt: кульы (kuľy), арбери (arberi)
• Ukrainian: хуй (uk) m (xuj), (of children) пісю́н (uk) m (pisjún)
• Urdu: لنڈ m (laṇḍ)
• Uzbek: asbob (uz), qoʻtoq
• Venetic: caso
• Veps: mulk, hui
• Vietnamese: cặc (vi), buồi (vi)
• Walloon: kete (wa) f
• Welsh: pidlan f, pidyn (cy) m
• Xhosa: itepu, ixhayana
• Yakut: өбүс (öbüs)
• Yiddish: שלאַנג f (shlang), שוואַנץ f (shvants), פּאָץ m (pots), שמאָק m (shmok)

highly contemptible person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傻屌 (zh) (shǎdiǎo)

• Czech: čurák (cs) m, kokot (cs) m
• Dutch: lul (nl) m
• Esperanto: kaculo (eo), aĉulo (eo)
• Estonian: munn (et)
• Finnish: kusipää (fi), mulkku (fi)
• French: connard (fr) m, pédé (fr) m
• German: ^{(please verify)} Arsch (de) m (ass), ^{(please verify)} Arschloch (de) m (asshole), ^{(please verify)} Schwanzlutscher (de) (dick sucker)
• Hungarian: fasz (hu), pöcs (hu), faszfej (hu)
• Indonesian: bangsat (id), bajingan (id), brengsek (id), keparat (id)
• Interlingua: merda (ia)
• Italian: coglione (it)
• Macedonian: курто́н m (kurtón)
• Polish: dupek (pl) m pers
• Portuguese: parvo (pt), otário (pt), parvalhão
• Russian: хуй (ru) m (xuj), хер (ru) m (xer)
• Slovak: kokot (sk)
• Spanish: pendejo (es) m, gilipollas (es), cretino (es)
• Yiddish: פּאַסקודניאַק m (paskudnyak), לא־לנו m (loy-lonu)

sexual intercourse with a man

• Finnish: saada munaa
• German: Schwanz (de) m
• Portuguese: pau (pt) m, picha (pt)

Verb

dick (third-person singular simple present dicks, present participle dicking, simple past and past participle dicked) (transitive, slang, vulgar)

1. To mistreat or take advantage of somebody.

   dick around

   dick up

   Dude, don't let them dick you around like that!

2. To penetrate sexually with a penis.

   Synonyms: bone, schlong; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:

     Homeboy, throw in the towel / Your girl got dicked by Ricky Powell

   • 1996, Clarence Major, Dirty bird blues:

     Listen, this old gal we going to see probably don't like liquor and drinking, so be cool. I'm just gon borrow a few bucks off her. I ain't never dicked her or nothing.

Derived terms

• dick about
• dick around
• dick down
• dick off
• dick out
• dick up

Etymology 2

A shortening and alteration of detective.

Noun

dick (plural dicks)

2. (dated, US, slang) A detective.

   private dick, railroad dick

   • 1937 November 1, Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile:

     “I am a detective,” said Hercule Poirot with the modest air of one who says “I am a king.” ¶ “Good God!” The young man seemed seriously taken aback. “Do you mean that girl actually totes about a dumb dick?”

Derived terms

• clever dick
• house dick
• private dick

Translations

detective — see also detective

• Danish: detektiv c
• German: (colloquial, pejorative) Schnüffler (de) m (literally “sniffer”) (sniffer)
• Macedonian: детекти́в m (detektív)
• Russian: ище́йка (ru) m or f (iščéjka), детекти́в (ru) m (detektív)
• Slovak: špiceľ
• Spanish: sabueso (es) m
• Swedish: deckare (sv) c, detektiv (sv) c

Etymology 3

A shortening and alteration of declaration.

Noun

dick (plural dicks)

1. (obsolete) A declaration.
   • 1875, Mrs. George Croft Huddleston, Bluebell:

     "He seems to set a deal of store by her, though. There's some young 'ooman at home, where she lives, I'd take my dying dick."

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Cumbric *deg, from Proto-Brythonic *deg. Cognate with Welsh deg.

Numeral

dick

2. (Cumbria) Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting.

Derived terms

• methera-a-dick
• tethera-a-dick
• tyan-a-dick
• yan-a-dick

See also

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

References

• Wirght, Peter (1995), Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 7
• Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007), Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number‎^[5], Australian Council for Educational Research, →ISBN, retrieved 17 May 2008, page 75
• Varvogli, Aliki (2002), Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide‎^[6], Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, retrieved 17 May 2008, pages 24-25

See also

• spotted dick (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• CDKI, cdki

German

Etymology

From Middle High German dicke, from Old High German dicki, dicchi (akin to Old Saxon thikki), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī.

Compare Low German dick, Dutch dik, English thick, Danish tyk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪk/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -ɪk

Adjective

dick (strong nominative masculine singular dicker, comparative dicker, superlative am dicksten)

1. thick
2. fat
3. swollen

Declension

Positive forms of dick

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist dick	sie ist dick	es ist dick	sie sind dick
strong declension (without article)	nominative	dicker	dicke	dickes	dicke
	genitive	dicken	dicker	dicken	dicker
	dative	dickem	dicker	dickem	dicken
	accusative	dicken	dicke	dickes	dicke
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der dicke	die dicke	das dicke	die dicken
	genitive	des dicken	der dicken	des dicken	der dicken
	dative	dem dicken	der dicken	dem dicken	den dicken
	accusative	den dicken	die dicke	das dicke	die dicken
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein dicker	eine dicke	ein dickes	(keine) dicken
	genitive	eines dicken	einer dicken	eines dicken	(keiner) dicken
	dative	einem dicken	einer dicken	einem dicken	(keinen) dicken
	accusative	einen dicken	eine dicke	ein dickes	(keine) dicken

Comparative forms of dick

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist dicker	sie ist dicker	es ist dicker	sie sind dicker
strong declension (without article)	nominative	dickerer	dickere	dickeres	dickere
	genitive	dickeren	dickerer	dickeren	dickerer
	dative	dickerem	dickerer	dickerem	dickeren
	accusative	dickeren	dickere	dickeres	dickere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der dickere	die dickere	das dickere	die dickeren
	genitive	des dickeren	der dickeren	des dickeren	der dickeren
	dative	dem dickeren	der dickeren	dem dickeren	den dickeren
	accusative	den dickeren	die dickere	das dickere	die dickeren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein dickerer	eine dickere	ein dickeres	(keine) dickeren
	genitive	eines dickeren	einer dickeren	eines dickeren	(keiner) dickeren
	dative	einem dickeren	einer dickeren	einem dickeren	(keinen) dickeren
	accusative	einen dickeren	eine dickere	ein dickeres	(keine) dickeren

Superlative forms of dick

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist am dicksten	sie ist am dicksten	es ist am dicksten	sie sind am dicksten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	dickster	dickste	dickstes	dickste
	genitive	dicksten	dickster	dicksten	dickster
	dative	dickstem	dickster	dickstem	dicksten
	accusative	dicksten	dickste	dickstes	dickste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der dickste	die dickste	das dickste	die dicksten
	genitive	des dicksten	der dicksten	des dicksten	der dicksten
	dative	dem dicksten	der dicksten	dem dicksten	den dicksten
	accusative	den dicksten	die dickste	das dickste	die dicksten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein dickster	eine dickste	ein dickstes	(keine) dicksten
	genitive	eines dicksten	einer dicksten	eines dicksten	(keiner) dicksten
	dative	einem dicksten	einer dicksten	einem dicksten	(keinen) dicksten
	accusative	einen dicksten	eine dickste	ein dickstes	(keine) dicksten

Antonyms

• dünn

Derived terms

• dicklich
• dickstielig
• dickfellig
• dickhäutig
• Dickmaulrüssler

Further reading

• “dick”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[7] (in German)
• “dick” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “dick” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German dicke, from Old High German dicki, dicchi, from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tik/
• Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

dick (comparative dicker, superlative dickest)

1. thick

   Das Brett is zweu Zentimeter dick.

   The board is two meters thick.

2. fat

   Sie is en dicke Fraa.

   She is a fat woman.

3. pregnant

   Mein Schwesder is schun nommol dick.

   My sister is no longer pregnant.

Declension

Declension of dick (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives)

		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
weak inflection	nominative	dick	dick	dick	dicke
	accusative	dicke	dick	dick	dicke
	dative	dicke	dicke	dicke	dicke
strong inflection	nominative	dicker	dicke	dickes	dicke
	accusative	dicke	dicke	dickes	dicke
	dative	dickem	dicker	dickem	dicke

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “dick”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 34

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German dicke, from Old High German dicchi. Compare German dick, Dutch dik, English thick.

Adjective

dick

1. thick
2. close
3. stout