Dickon
English
Proper noun
Dickon
- (dated) A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
- 1591 William Shakespeare, Richard III: Act V: Scene 3:
- Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, / For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.
- 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
- Dickon stood rubbing his rusty-red head with a rather puzzled look. "It's a secret garden sure enough," he said, "but seems like some one besides th' robin must have been in it since it was shut up ten year' ago."
- 1591 William Shakespeare, Richard III: Act V: Scene 3: