dicky bird
Small singing creature
Dicky bird is British rhyming slang for word, usually in the negative: I haven't heard a dicky bird from him.
The phrase also serves as a child-friendly term for any small bird, particularly in nursery talk.
In older British slang, a dicky bird could mean a shirt front or a horse-drawn carriage seat.
- robinSmall orange-breasted thrush
- finchSmall seed-eating songbird
- canaryYellow caged songbird
- warblerSmall melodious bird
- thrushSpotted woodland vocalist
starling · beak · quaintness · whisper · whimsy · Britishism · oriole · swallow · wren · rhyming slang · British slang · slang · swift · sparrow · chirp · titmouse · chickadee · murmur
- Cockney slangapples and pears, boat race, mince pies, porky pies, rhyming slang
- bird wordsrobin, eagle, swan, sparrow, crow
dicky birdavian
Of or concerning birds
passerine · bird · fowl · songbird · small bird
dicky birdeagle
Large predatory bird
condor · raptor · bird of prey · vulture · hawk
dicky birdsilence
Total lack of sound
not a word · mum · hush · muteness · speechlessness