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In this case is "dick" a noun or a pronoun? Example: You don't know dick. According to wiktionary is a countable noun, but I think this is a pronoun like "nothing.". I think it's odd call this a countable noun.It seems I was wrong about this :) In wiktionary it is an uncountable noun :)
Apr 22, 2013 9:45 AM
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"You don't know dick" means "you don't know shit, or, in more acceptable English, " you don't know anything".
April 22, 2013
From: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dick noun vulgar slang 1a man’s penis. • (British) a stupid or contemptible man ((though I've heard a fair number of Americans use it this way)). 2 [mass noun, with negative] (North American) anything at all So in the US, we've shifted it to uncountable for this meaning, but I think it falls short of pronoun status. ("?Dick is wrong." for "Nothing is wrong" -- I'm not sure it's there yet) And you should use it sparingly in mixed company.
April 22, 2013
Yes. It is an uncountable noun. Keep reading the sentence until you see it.
April 22, 2013
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