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Definition of Dicty
1. Adjective. (African American Vernacular English) stylish and respectable; high-class ¹
2. Adjective. (African American Vernacular English) striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious ¹
3. Adjective. (African American Vernacular English) snobbish and uptight ¹
4. Noun. (African American Vernacular English) An upper-class black. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dicty
1. snobbish [adj -TIER, -TIEST] - See also: snobbish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicty
Literary usage of Dicty
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1. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1906)
"A. and B. dicty.) (From 67—Pendentive of which the surface forms part of a sphere.
... Eye and dicty.) mind crave a much greater weight, or the appear- ..."
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