What's the difference between dicky and picky?

Dicky


Definition:

  • (n.) A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.
  • (n.) A false shirt front or bosom.
  • (n.) A gentleman's shirt collar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.38pm GMT A good point, well made from Simon McMahon Maybe if Dynamo could arrange for him and Dickie to stand in Perth tomorrow England might be in with a chance.
  • (2) It came in useful when I auditioned for The Dickie Davies Story, but if the character I’m playing doesn’t have a white streak in his hair I wear scarves or hats on stage, or rely on an understanding director of photography when doing TV and film work to shoot me from a sympathetic angle.
  • (3) Photograph: Screengrab 8.31pm GMT Dicky Bird and Magicial Dynamo The esteemed and ancient Dickie Bird is in some kind of montage with young magician Dynamo.
  • (4) For decades, "Tricky Dicky" was the supreme hate figure for the American left, the incarnation of the antichrist for Democrats.
  • (5) (The fourth round, in 2015, raised £5m in 20 days, which was what prompted Watt and Dickie to drop those stuffed “fat cats” onto the City.)
  • (6) Growth in 'Dickie' culture and reactivity with 1G10 myeloid antibody suggested coexpression of lymphoid and myeloid characteristics.
  • (7) It is also opening a whisky and vodka distillery on the same site, and building a major new production facility in the US – its biggest export market, where Watt and Dickie are the stars of an extreme-brewing reality show called Brew Dogs, which follows the pair around America as they visit craft breweries and make beer using outlandish ingredients ranging from a lobster to the world’s hottest chilli.
  • (8) The last three steps described in the preceding communication Robern, H., Stavric, S. and Dickie, N. (1975) Biochim.
  • (9) When your mum used to call you in for tea, did she call you Dickie or Harold, your real name?
  • (10) Flavour was everything to Jackson, he was obsessed by it,” Dickie said, reverently.
  • (11) Up in Ellon the following month, Dickie took a different tack.
  • (12) Peter Box, the veteran leader of Wakefield city council, recently told the BBC: “Whatever happens in the coming Scottish independence vote, there will be more devolution … The genie is out of the bottle, we want more power and I actually believe Yorkshire should be independent.” The poet Ian McMillan, the “Barnsley Bard”, has started to think about who should serve in Yorkshire’s cabinet, suggesting Geoffrey Boycott as head of the diplomatic service and Dickie Bird as prime minister – because “he would ensure that nothing was spent”.
  • (13) ‘The characters have gone out of sport’ … Dickie Bird after his last Test match, between England and India at Lord's in 1996.
  • (14) His greatest journalistic coup came in 1977 when he interviewed the disgraced US president Richard Nixon and induced Tricky Dicky to confess in public his guilt over Watergate.
  • (15) A t the end of 2006, Dickie followed Michael Jackson’s advice and quit his day job at the brewery (which also meant moving back in with his parents).
  • (16) What’s good with beer, compared to spirits, is you can try stuff and get an outcome really quickly,” Dickie, in jeans and T-shirt, told me on a dark December afternoon in the BrewDog Taphouse, a warm, shed-like bar conveniently attached to the company’s Ellon brewery, filled with dog walkers, office workers from a nearby business park, guys with tats and caps and girls in woolly hats.
  • (17) Tricking the truth out of Tricky Dicky was, in many ways, the least of his achievements.
  • (18) On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.
  • (19) It’s a story that’s repeated in cities across the world, by old men with dodgy backs and dicky knees, still riding because after 20 years, no other job will have them, struggling to earn half of what they did before, warning newcomers like me to get out while the going’s good.
  • (20) His autobiography sold more than a million copies – the bestselling sports book of all time, he tells me proudly; his show, An Evening With Dickie Bird, still tours – he says he got a bigger audience at Leeds Grand Theatre than Shirley Bassey; he has launched a foundation to help disadvantaged teenagers play sport; and his home town of Barnsley erected a statue of him.

Picky


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pickiness and concern with weight were more common in girls than in boys, and the prevalence of pickiness declined with age.
  • (2) Writing in the Daily Telegraph in December, Johnson, then mayor of London, said the west could not afford to be picky in its choice of allies since Isis in Syria could not be defeated without terrestrial forces.
  • (3) When searching for gay parenting in kids' movies, I found the short film Family Restaurant , about a picky toothpick dispenser who thinks ketchup bottles shouldn't be allowed to date; he changes his tune after learning a valuable lesson from a little boy with two dads.
  • (4) And being ultra picky, the nicely charred, coarsely ground patty (of prime Northern Irish beef) could do with a shade more seasoning, too.
  • (5) Unsurprisingly, the uproar forced the company to backtrack within 48 hours and promise even newer firmware that wouldn’t be so picky.
  • (6) While it seems we have a natural inclination to love ice cream, most of us are not too picky about how we take our fix.
  • (7) With all this going on, never mind global warming, we appear to be entering an era of hyper-picky sexual freeze.
  • (8) There, at a remove, he’s picky about the stuff he’s offered.
  • (9) If we are going to be picky and try to find one lingering complaint about the way Arsenal handed Manchester United this sobering reality check, it can be only that Arsène Wenger’s team should remind us of their brilliance more often.
  • (10) Miura concedes that she and her boyfriend are "picky" about food.
  • (11) Some people are very particular about the characteristics they want their child to have, "but normally by the time people have made that big emotional jump, they're not going to be picky about hair colour.
  • (12) It would, in any case, suit Boris (whose second mayoral term runs until May, 2016) if the contest to succeed Cameron were held later; and (to be really picky) with the Tories still in power.
  • (13) When I meet Gensler and Venus, they assure me that discussions are going well with the Port of London Authority , which manages the river and is notoriously picky about intrusions on it.
  • (14) Even after that terrible date, my friends and family told me I was being too picky, and that unless I relaxed my standards, I'd never get married.
  • (15) Show me someone who likes their meat overcooked and I will show you a picky eater, someone who regards meal times as a set of challenges and insults to be negotiated, like oil-slicked chicanes on a race track.
  • (16) Call me picky, but a close-up of something slicing fat like a Sunday roast is quite off-putting.
  • (17) All in all we can’t be too picky – it was a good all-round performance.
  • (18) "I have to take any job I can get, because [while] they serve meals here, he is picky about what he eats.
  • (19) Pedro Martinez is on the TBS pregame show here in the US and says the Cardinals have to be careful, because the Dodgers are going to be "very picky" if they hit him or come close to hitting the shortstop.
  • (20) As qualifying group winners, Northern Ireland have earned the right to be picky.

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