0 weak, especially in health, and likely to fail or suffer from problems: --
Grandad's got a dicky heart.
He has dicky legs, his fielding has not been particularly brilliant, and his batting has been lamentably weak.
As she agrees to this, he becomse overwhelmed and his dicky ticker (bad heart) sets in.
He has a serious heart condition, causing his dicky ticker to go into overdrive when he glimpses the women's underclothing.
I have examples, and one in particular, which is typical, of a medium-sized firm whose balance sheet 18 months ago was in rather a "dicky" state.
The matter had been in all the national papers and every television channel in the south, yet we did not hear a dicky bird from the association.
We are aware that its finances are in dicky order.
If a business cannot stand a year's reduction in its trade, it must be already in a "dicky" state.
We have not heard a dicky bird about those proposals since.
