Hi Linda and other Arachnids,
Is âdickey potâ a local name? What is it? (showing my ignorance?). My Collins dictionary gives dickey or dicky as the false shirt- or blouse front; the informal name for a donkey -especially a male one-; the outside seat on an vintage car or as dickybird a childâs expression for a small bird. Nothing there about a woman's petticoat or a dicky pot. Could the meaning of the âdickyâ in your quotations refer to a bustle? One could then make the jump to the âsticking out seatâ on the vintage car. It also gives the meaning of feeling dickey; feeling ill or nauseous. From: Linda Walton Sent: âTuesdayâ, â21â âAprilâ â2015 â06â:â42 To: Lace Arachne Recently I was looking up 'tralaticious' in the Oxford English Dictionary Online, and found myself looking up 'dickey pot'. (Well, you know how it is, as you get older?) There was no entry for 'dickey pot', but there was a collection of quotations explaining how one meaning of dickey, (or dicky), was a petticoat - that is, a woman's underskirt. _â 4. An under petticoat. /Obs./_ 1753 /Songs Costume/ (Percy Soc.) 231 "With fringes of knotting your Dickey cabod [? cabob], On slippers of velvet, set gold a-la-daube." 1787 /Minor/ I. 99 "Of all her splendid apparel not a wreck remained..save her flannel dicky." 1800 J. Wolcot /Ld. Auckland's Triumph/ in/Wks./ (1812) IV. 311 "The hips ashamed forsooth to wear a dicky." 1847â78 J. O. Halliwell /Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words/ /Dicky/, "a woman's under-petticoat." I would like to write to them about the lack of "dickey pot", but they will only accept additions to the dictionary if accompanied by examples of written use of the word from dated sources, (as above). Linda Walton, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
