dicky vs quicksilver

dicky

adj
  • doubtful, troublesome; in poor condition 

  • like a dick, foolish or obnoxious 

noun
  • A leather apron for a gig, etc. 

  • The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car. 

  • A louse. 

  • Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. 

  • A haddock. 

  • A small bird; a dicky-bird. 

  • An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird. 

  • A detachable shirt front, collar or bib. 

  • A pilot. 

  • A hedge sparrow. 

  • A donkey. 

quicksilver

adj
  • Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial. 

noun
  • The metal mercury. 

  • An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering. 

verb
  • To overlay with quicksilver. 

  • To treat with quicksilver. 

How often have the words dicky and quicksilver occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )