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Dicier vs Dickier - What's the difference?

dicier | dickier |

As adjectives the difference between dicier and dickier

is that dicier is comparative of dicey while dickier is comparative of dicky.

dicier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (dicey)

  • dicey

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Fraught with danger.
  • Of uncertain, risky outcome.
  • * 2012 , Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver (editors), They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World , page 161,
  • Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey .
  • Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
  • * 1992 , Vincent O'Sullivan, The Witness Man'', in ''Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories , page 95,
  • As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with his dicey ticker and all he shouldn?t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him.
  • * 2011 , Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social , page xv,
  • If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
  • (slang) Nauseating, rank.
  • * 2011 , Keemholems Ojei, The Narcodollar Chieftains: The Narcotics Godfathers , page 101,
  • Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually.

    dickier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (dicky)

  • Dicky

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of the male given name Richard.