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pikey

Speech parts

1. pikey - Noun

2. pikey - Adjective

3. pikey - Verb

Meaning


pikey (plural pikeys)

(informal) A pike (fish).


pikey (comparative more pikey, superlative most pikey)

Associated with or filled with pike (fish).

(UK, Ireland, ethnic slur, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage.

(UK, Ireland, derogatory, offensive) A working-class (often underclass) person with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft and living on rundown estates.


pikey (comparative more pikey, superlative most pikey)

(UK, slang, derogatory) Associated with pikeys.


pikey (third-person singular simple present pikeys, present participle pikeying, simple past and past participle pikeyed)

(UK, slang, derogatory) To steal.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Many of our favorite pubs and bars are having shindigs on Christmas Eve, New Years Eve and some, like The Pikey, are even open on Christmas Day and serving up Figgy Pudding to boot. Source: Internet

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