Just saw a silent movie made in 1927 by a black movie company for a black audience. One character was a high-toned composer/pianist. Another character, a con artist, referred to the pianist as "dicty" in a disparaging way. So the word's been around for a while. "Leave that dicty man and come with me. With your beauty and my brains, we'll be rich."
by Word Watcher October 1, 2007
Tastefully elegant,intelligent,a sense of humor,refined but also street-wise and able to mingle with different "social classes". A classy lady.
Audrey Hepburn's character Holly, in Breakfast at Tiffany's is an example of a modern-day Dicty dame.
by sleepy October 13, 2004
A black person who acts white. This term was coined during the age of speakeasies and juke-jives. Often the dictie is mulatto and upperclass.
Shine said to himself, 'If this bird wasn't a dictie he'd be o.k. But they never was a dictie worth a damn.' --Walls of Jericho
by hanzilla April 16, 2009
by jimmy-jet July 11, 2022
UD is by far the most interesting dicty on the web, it's evolving at a pace unknown to man!
Gotta go fire up the ol' dicty and bust out a def!
Gotta go fire up the ol' dicty and bust out a def!
by bob.the.mang.o December 1, 2005