Dibs. A game played by boys with sheep's dibs or knuckle-bones (S.).—N. & S.W.
*Dick-and-his-team. The Great Bear.—N.W. Compare Jack-and-his-team.
'I know the north star; there it is.... And the Great Bear; the men call it Dick and his Team.'—Greene Ferne Farm, ch. vi.
Dicker. (1) To bedeck. 'Gels be allus a dickerin' therselves up now-a-days.'—N.W. (Huish.) (2) 'As thick as they can dicker,' very intimate.—S.W. (Amesbury.) 'All in a dicker (or 'digger'),' very close together.—S.W.
Dicky. (1) Of vegetables, decayed. (2) Of persons or plants, weakly or in ill-health (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 110). Cf. Daddicky.—N.W.
Dicky-birds. Fumaria officinalis, L., Common Fumitory.—S.W.
Diedapper. Podiceps minor, the Dabchick; Divedapper in Shakespeare. In common use at Salisbury until quite recently. Before the streams running through the city were covered over, it was an every-day occurrence to see a dripping urchin making for home, with an escort of friends at his heels yelling 'Diedapper, Diedapper, Diedapper, die!'—S.W.
*Diggle. v. To grow thickly together. 'They weeds be a coming up agen as thick as ever they can diggle.' See Dicker.—N.W. (Potterne.).
Diggled, Daggled. Covered over or hung thickly with anything. Compare Daglet. 'Thick may-bush be aal diggled wi' berries.'—S.W. (Salisbury.)
Diggles. n. Abundance, plenty (S.). 'Let's go a blackberryin'; there's diggles up Grovely.' See Diggle.—S.W.