pikey
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noun
noun, also dialect
A gypsy or traveller; also, a lower-class person, regarded as coarse or disreputable; also, asadjective , characteristic of pikeys; squalid, disreputable, vulgar. (1847 —) .
P. Wildeblood My family's all Pikeys, but we ain't on the road no more! (1955).
[From pikenoun , turnpike.]
noun, also dialect
A gypsy or traveller; also, a lower-class person, regarded as coarse or disreputable; also, as
P. Wildeblood My family's all Pikeys, but we ain't on the road no more! (1955).
[From pike
| piker, pigskin, pigging | |
| piking, pill, pill-head |
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