Usually means: Slang for pretentious or ostentatious.
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  1. dicty-: Merriam-Webster
  2. dicty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dicty: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Dicty, dicty: Wiktionary
  5. dicty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. dicty: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. dicty: Dictionary.com

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  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dicty, dicty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dicty: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dicty)

adjective:  (African-American Vernacular) stylish and respectable; high-class
adjective:  (African-American Vernacular) striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious
adjective:  (African-American Vernacular) snobbish and uptight
noun:  (African-American Vernacular) An upper-class black.

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