dicke

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪkə/

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• Hyphenation: di‧cke; pre-1996: dik‧ke

dicke

1. inflection of dick:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

dicke

1. (colloquial) amply, sufficiently
2. (colloquial, as an answer) absolutely, for sure

From Old Dutch *thicki.

dicke

1. thick, fat
2. thick, viscous (of a liquid)
3. dense
4. cloudy

• Dutch: dik
  • Afrikaans: dik
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: deki
  • Negerhollands: dik
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: dik (archaic)
  • → Aukan: deki
  • → Papiamentu: diki, dek
  • → Saramaccan: dégi (via Skepi Creole Dutch)
  • → Sranan Tongo: deki
• Limburgish: diek
• Zealandic: dik

From dicke +‎ -e.

dicke f

1. thickness

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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dicke

1. thickly, compactly
2. often

• dicken

• “dicke (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “dicke (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “dicke (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “dicke (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “dicke (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

dicke

1. Alternative form of dhicke (“this”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Na dicke wye, nar dicka.

     Neither this way, nor that.

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 4-5:

     crave na dicke luckie acte t'uck neicher th' Eccellencie,

     beg leave at this favourable opportunity to approach your Excellency,

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14:

     az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.

     for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 16-18:

     y'ast, bie ractzom o'honde, ee-delt t'ouz ye laas ee-mate var ercha vassale, ne'er dwythen na dicke waie nar dicka.

     you have with impartial hand ministered the laws made for every subject, without regard to this party or that.

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 1-2:

     Ye state na dicke daie o'ye londe, na whilke be nar fash nar moile, albiet 'constitutional agitation,'

     The condition, this day, of the country, in which is neither tumult nor disorder, but that constitutional agitation,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 34