Sekirov Dictionary

pikey

/ˈpaɪ.ki/

noun 3
adjective 2
verb 1
forms 5

noun3

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(UK, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage.
- Gipsies and the pikey race generally were a class outside Lord Sandbar's previous experience, and he listened greedily. — 1887
•
(UK, offensive) A working-class (often underclass) person with negative qualities stereotypically ascribed to itinerant people, including rowdiness, theft and poor hygiene.
- But if there's one thing he hates more than pikeys, it's posh people. — 2011
•
(informal) A pike (type of fish).
- In 1876, in twelve fishings in the same months, there were caught 31 Pikeys, 4 Spotted Dogs, and 441 Nowds. — 1881

adjective2

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(slang, offensive) Associated with pikeys.
- Blimey. The least pikey place on the planet. — 2006
•
Associated with or filled with pike (fish).
- The Broadland waters are pikey waters. There is no doubt that if Norfolk is famous for any one species of fish, then it is for none other than Esox himself, the predatory pike. — 1965

verb1

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(slang, offensive) To steal.
- >It's getting hold of a copy that isn't pikeyed that I'm having >difficulty with :-( — 2004

forms

pikeyed · pikeying · pikeys · more pikey · most pikey

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