dick

See also: Dick

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭk, IPA^(key): /dɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪk

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Dick, pet form of the name Richard. The name Dick came to mean "everyman", from which the word acquired other meanings.

Noun

dick (countable and uncountable, plural dicks)

1. (countable, obsolete) A male person.
2. (countable and uncountable, vulgar, slang) The penis.
3. (countable, British, US, vulgar, slang, derogatory) A highly contemptible person; a jerk.

   That person is such a dick.

4. (uncountable, US, Canada, vulgar, slang) Absolutely nothing.

   Last weekend I did dick.

5. (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.

Synonyms

• (penis): See Thesaurus:penis
• (contemptible person): dickhead
• (contemptible person): asshole
• (contemptible person): jerk

Hypernyms

• genitals

Derived terms

• dickhead
• dickface
• dickflesh
• dicktionary
• swinging dick

Translations

slang: penis

• Afrikaans: piel
• Albanian: kar m
• Arabic: زُب (ar) m (zub), زُبْر m (zubr), عَيْر m (ʕayr)

  Egyptian Arabic: زب m (zeb), زبر m (zubr)

  Hadrami Arabic:

  Libyan Arabic: زب m (zeb)

  Moroccan Arabic: زب m (zabb, zubb)

  North Levantine Arabic: أير m (ʾer)

  South Levantine Arabic: أير m (ʾayr)

• Armenian: կլիր (klir)
• Azerbaijani: sik
• Bashkir: ҡутаҡ (qutaq)
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} zil
• Belarusian: хуй m (xuj)
• Bengali: ধন (bn) (dhon)
• Buginese: laso
• Bulgarian: кур m (kur), хуй m (huj)
• Catalan: carall (ca) m, polla (ca) f, titola f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 㞗 (gau¹), 𡳞 (lan²)

  Mandarin: 雞巴／鸡巴 (zh) (jība), 鸡巴 (zh) (jība), 屌 (zh) (diǎo), 鳥／鸟 (zh) (diǎo)

  Min Nan: 𡳞鳥／𡳞鸟 (zh-min-nan) (lān-chiáu)

• Czech: péro (cs) m, čurák (cs) m, kokot (cs) m, ocas (cs) m, šulin (cs) m (in Moravia), kláda (cs) m (especially a big cock), pták (cs) m (slang), chuj (cs) m
• Danish: pik (da), diller c, kødfløjte c
• Dutch: lul (nl) m, pik (nl) m, piemel (nl) m, leuter (nl)
• Esperanto: kaco (eo)
• Estonian: munn (et), türa (et)
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: murtur m, snillur m, fansur m
• Finnish: kalu (fi), mulkku (fi), kyrpä (fi), kulli (fi)
• French: bite (fr) f, bitte (fr) f, paf (fr) m, pine (fr) f, queue (fr) f, vit (fr) m, zob (fr) m, teub (fr) f

  Old French: vit m

• Galician: pirola f, carallo (gl) m, gaita (gl) f, nabo (gl) m, pito (gl) m, pixa (gl) f, caralla (gl) f, ferramenta (gl) f, pistola (gl) f, pistolo m
• Georgian: ყლე (q̇le)
• German: Schwanz (de) m, Schlange (de) f
• Greek: ψωλή (el) f (psolí) (slang, obscene), πούτσος (el) m (poútsos) (obscene), πούτσα (el) f (poútsa) (obscene), καυλί (el) n (kavlí) (slang, obscene), πούλος (el) m (poúlos), πούλλος m (poúllos), παπάρι (el) n (papári) (slang), παπάρα (el) f (papára) (slang)

  Ancient: κέρκος f (kérkos) (slang)

• Hebrew: זַיִן (he) m (záyin)
• Hindi: लुंड (hi) (luṇḍ), लंड (hi) m (laṇḍ)
• Hungarian: fasz (hu), pöcs (hu), farok (hu)
• Icelandic: typpi (is) n, drjóli (is) m, göndull m
• Indonesian: burung (id), kontol (id) (slang, obscene), titit (id), kanjut, peler
• Interlingua: pene, virga
• Irish: bod (ga)
• Italian: pisello (it) m, cazzo (it) m, uccello (it) m, minchia (it) f
• Japanese: ちんこ (ja) (chinko), ちんぽ (ja) (chinpo), ちんちん (ja) (chinchin), (of children) おちんちん (o-chinchin), ぽこちん (pokochin), まら (mara), ちんぽこ (chinpoko)
• Javanese: kontol, peli (jv)
• Kazakh: қотақ (qotaq)
• Khmer: ក្ដ (km) (kdɑɑ)
• Korean: 좆 (ko) (jot), 자지 (ko) (jaji), 고추 (ko) (gochu), 남근 (ko) (namgeun) (男根 (ko)), 남경 (ko) (namgyeong) (男莖 (ko)),
• Kyrgyz: коток (kotok)
• Ladino: pata f, pupuna f
• Lao: ກະດໍ (ka dǭ), ໂຄ້ຽ (khōi), ບ້ອງ (bǭng), ແບ້ນ (bǣn)
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• Latin: verpa f, mentula (la) f, mūtō (la) m
• Latvian: vdaikts m, daikts m, pipele, pimpis
• Lithuanian: bỹbis m, bybỹs m
• Luhya: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: кур (kur)
• Malay: konek
• Maltese: żobb m
• Minangkabau: kalempong
• Navajo: achoʼ
• Northern Sami: cillu, návli
• Norwegian: kuk (no), kukk (no) m, pikk (no) m
• Ojibwe: niinag (inanimate, possessed (first person: my penis))
• Pashto: غيڼ (ps) (ǧiṇ)
• Persian: کیر (fa) (kir)
• Polish: chuj (pl) m anim, kutas (pl) m anim, pyta (pl) f, wał (pl) m anim, fiut (pl) m anim, pała (pl) f
• Portuguese: caralho (pt) m, picha (pt) f, pica (pt) f, jeba (pt) f, verga (pt) f, pau (pt) m, pinto (pt) m, cacete (pt) m, vara (pt) f, rola (pt) f, piroca (pt), bilau m
• Romanian: pulă (ro) f, miel (ro) m
• Russian: хуй (ru) m (xuj), хер (ru) m (xer), член (ru) m (člen) (mild), писю́н (ru) m (pisjún) (of children), пи́ська (ru) f (písʹka) (also for vagina), пипи́ска (ru) f (pipíska)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: курац m, кита f

  Roman: kurac (sh) m, kita (sh) f kurčina, pimpek (sh), ćuna f

• Sicilian: minchia (scn) f
• Slovak: kokot (sk) m, vták (sk) m
• Slovene: kurec (sl) m, kurac m, klinac, kurc, tič, lulek, lulček, batina, cura
• Spanish: (all of these words are vulgar:) bicho (es) m (Puerto Rico), cipote (es) m (Spain), huevo (es) m (Dominican Republic, Venezuela), ñafle m (Chile),paloma (es) f (Venezuela), picha (es) f (Costa Rica), pichi (es) m (Bolivia), pichula (es) f (Peru), pico (es) f (Chile), pija (es) f (Argentina), pinga (es) f (Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Spain's Canary Islands, Venezuela), pito (es) m (Mexico), polla (es) f (Spain standard usage), tranca (es) f (Spain), turca (es) f (Nicaragua), verga (es) f (now especially El Salvador, Paraguay) ,
• Sundanese: kanjut
• Swedish: kuk (sv) c, pitt (sv) c, balle (sv) c
• Tagalog: titi (tl)
• Tajik: кир (kir), кер (ker)
• Tamil: ஆண்குறி (ta) (āṇkuṟi)
• Tatar: кутак (qutaq)
• Telugu: లింగము (te) (liṅgamu)
• Thai: ควย (th) (kuai), จู๋ (th) (jǔu), กระจู๋ (th), เจี๊ยว (th) (jíao), กระเจี๊ยว (th) (grà-jíao), ดอ (th) (dɔɔ), กระดอ (grà-dɔɔ), นกเขา (th) (nók-kǎo)
• Turkish: yarak (tr) (also yarrak), sik (tr), çük (tr), kobra (tr), pipi (tr), kuş (tr)
• Turkmen: çük
• Udmurt: кульы (kuľy), арбери (arberi)
• Ukrainian: хуй (uk) m (xuj), (of children) пісю́н m (pisjún)
• Urdu: لنڈ m (laṇḍ)
• Uzbek: asbob (uz)
• Vietnamese: cặc (vi), buồi (vi)
• Walloon: kete (wa) f
• Welsh: pidlan f, pidyn (cy) m
• West Frisian: lul
• Xhosa: itepu, ixhayana
• Yakut: өбүс (öbüs)
• Yiddish: שלאַנג f (shlang), שוואַנץ f (shvants), פּוץ m (puts), שמאָק m (shmok)

highly contemptible person

• Dutch: lul (nl) m
• Esperanto: kaculo (eo)
• Estonian: munn (et)
• Finnish: mulkku (fi)
• French: connard (fr) m, pédé (fr) m
• German: ^{(please verify)} Arsch (de) m (ass), ^{(please verify)} Arschloch (de) m (asshole), ^{(please verify)} Schwanzlutscher (de) (dick sucker)
• Hungarian: fasz (hu), pöcs (hu), faszfej (hu)
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• Indonesian: bangsat (id), bajingan (id), brengsek (id), keparat (id)
• Interlingua: merda (ia)
• Italian: coglione (it)
• Polish: dupek (pl) m pers
• Russian: хуй (ru) m (xuj), хер (ru) m (xer)
• Slovak: kokot (sk)
• Spanish: pendejo (es) m

Verb

dick (third-person singular simple present dicks, present participle dicking, simple past and past participle dicked)

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

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

2. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To waste time, to goof off (with around).

   Quit dicking around and get to work!

3. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • 1996, Clarence Major, Dirty bird blues:

     Listen, this old gal we going to see probably don't like liquor and drinking, so be cool. I'm just gon borrow a few bucks off her. I ain't never dicked her or nothing.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

dick (plural dicks)

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

   private dick, railroad dick

   • 1937 November 1, Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile:

     “I am a detective,” said Hercule Poirot with the modest air of one who says “I am a king.”
     “Good God!” The young man seemed seriously taken aback. “Do you mean that girl actually totes about a dumb dick?”

Derived terms

• private dick
• clever dick

Translations

detective

• Danish: detektiv c
• German: (colloquial, pejorative) Schnüffler (de) m (sniffer)
• Russian: ище́йка (ru) m or f (iščéjka), детекти́в (ru) m (detektív)
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• Slovak: špiceľ
• Spanish: sabueso (es) m
• Swedish: deckare (sv) c, detektiv (sv) c

Etymology 3

A shortening and alteration of dec(laration).

Noun

dick (plural dicks)

1. (obsolete) A declaration.
   • 1875, Mrs. George Croft Huddleston, Bluebell:

     "He seems to set a deal of store by her, though. There's some young 'ooman at home, where she lives, I'd take my dying dick."

Etymology 4

From Brythonic numerals, from an assumed *dek.

Numeral

dick

1. (Cumbria) ten in Cumbrian sheep counting

Derived terms

• methera-a-dick
• tethera-a-dick
• tyan-a-dick
• yan-a-dick

 

See also

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

References

• Wirght, Peter (1995) Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 7
• Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007) Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number‎^[1], Australian Council for Educational Research, →ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, page 75
• Varvogli, Aliki (2002) Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide‎^[2], Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, pages 24-25

Anagrams

• CDKI, cdki

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German dicchi (akin to Old Saxon thikki), from Proto-Germanic *þekuz. Compare Low German dick, Dutch dik, English thick, Danish tyk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪk

Adjective

dick (comparative dicker, superlative am dicksten)

1. thick
2. fat

Derived terms

• dicklich
• dickstielig

Further reading

• “dick” in Duden online

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Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German dick, Dutch dik, English thick.

Adjective

dick

1. thick
2. close
3. stout