1. a detachable shirt front or collar worn to give the appearance of a shirt under a sweater or jacket
2. a small bird, especially a small songbird
Usage: informal
3. the driver’s seat in a carriage or the front seat of a car
Usage: archaic

1. unreliable, faulty, or in poor condition
Usage: British informal

Examples

• He wore a dickey under his sweater to look more formal.
• The old car’s engine was getting a bit dickey.
• She spotted a little dickey perched on the fence.
• The coachman sat in the dickey and drove the horses.
• My dickey knee acts up when it rains.
• The false dickey gave the appearance of a dress shirt.
• That dickey old radio keeps cutting out.