• enPR: dĭk, IPA: /dɪk/

Ultimately from Dick, pet form of the name Richard.

dick

1. (countable, obsolete) A male person.
2. (countable, slang) A detective, especially one working for the police; a police officer.
3. (countable and uncountable, vulgar, slang) The penis.
4. (countable, vulgar, slang, derogatory) A highly contemptible or obnoxious person; a jerk; traditionally, especially, a male jerk.

   That dude is such a dick.

   She's being such a dick about all this.

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

   Last weekend I did dick.

6. (uncountable, vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse with a man.
   • 1991, quoted in Andrew Parker, Nationalisms & Sexualities, page 309 ↗:

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

• (penis) See Thesaurus:penis
• (contemptible person) See Thesaurus:git, Thesaurus:jerk
• (nothing) See Thesaurus:nothing

• French: bite, paf, pine, queue, teub, vit, zob, sguègue
• German: Schwanz, Schlange, Penis, Pimmel, Zumpf, Zumpferl, Zipfel
• Italian: pisello, cazzo, uccello, minchia
• Portuguese: caralho, picha, pica, jeba, verga, pau, pinto, cacete, vara, rola, piroca, bilau, camandro, catano
• Russian: хуй
• Spanish: (all of these words are vulgar) bicho (Puerto Rico), cipote (Spain), huevo (Dominican Republic), ñafle (Chile), paloma (Venezuela), picha (Costa Rica), pichi (Bolivia), pichula (Peru), pico (Chile), pija (Argentina), pinga (Costa Rica), pito (Mexico), polla (Spain standard usage), tranca (Spain), turca (Nicaragua), verga (now especially El Salvador) ,

• French: connard, pédé
• German: Arsch (ass), Arschloch (asshole), Schwanzlutscher (dick sucker)
• Italian: coglione
• Russian: хуй
• Spanish: pendejo, gilipollas, cretino

• German: Schwanz
• Portuguese: pau

dick (dicks, present participle dicking; simple past and past participle dicked)

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up).

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

2. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To penetrate sexually.

• (have sexual intercourse with) bone, go to bed with, schlong; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

A shortening and alteration of de(t)ec(tive).

dick (plural dicks)

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

   private dick, railroad dick

• German: (colloquial, pejorative) Schnüffler sniffer
• Russian: ище́йка
• Spanish: sabueso

A shortening and alteration of dec(laration).

dick (plural dicks)

1. (obsolete) A declaration.

From a xcb - numeral corresponding to Welsh deg, from cel-bry-pro *deg.

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

Rhyming nickname for Rick, pet form of Richard.

• enPR: dĭk, IPA: /dɪk/

1. A male given name, also used as a formal given name.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene v]:

     Lascivious Edward, and thou perjur'd George,/ And thou mis-shapen Dick, I tell ye all,

   • 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::

     You may know what one man thinks of another by his manner of calling him. Thomas and James and Richard and William are stupid young gentlemen; Tom and Jem and Dick and Will are fine spirited fellows.

2. Surname.

• Hick
• Rick