dickish

English

Etymology

From dick +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪkɪʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

dickish (comparative more dickish, superlative most dickish)

1. (US, colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) Characteristic of a dick (a contemptible person); offensively unpleasant and vexatious.

   I get so annoyed with his dickish behavior.

   • 1992 February 14, Ailsa Murphy, “Re: Sex & paganism (was Re: reply)”, in alt.pagan‎ (Usenet), retrieved 4 February 2018, message-ID <MAINE.92045.093550IO81409>:

     AZG has fallen in my eyes into the same category as that of Clayton Cramer, Artemus Ward, and the various passing idiots. i will not answer his posts unless he insults me personally, as i think if we all ignore him he will go away. even if we DON'T all ignore him, i don't want to be responsible for keeping him around... (although it is sexist of me to think AZG is a him. some women are that dickish and stupid after all...)

   • 1992 March 31, Michael Wellck, “Re: College Campus Nudity”, in rec.nude‎ (Usenet), retrieved 4 February 2018, message-ID <darkstar.31711>:

     So basically, if any administrative person wanted to be dickish about it, they could take "diciplinary^[sic] action" it they decided that the presence of a nude body was disruptive (which, unfortunatly,^[sic] is normally the case).

Derived terms

• dickishly
• dickishness