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单词 didicoi
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didicoin.

Brit. /ˈdɪdᵻkɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈdɪdiˌkɔɪ/
Forms: 1800s didycoy, 1800s– diddikai, 1900s didekie, 1900s dideky, 1900s– deddikie, 1900s– didakai, 1900s– didakei, 1900s– diddakoi, 1900s– diddekai, 1900s– diddicai, 1900s– diddicoi, 1900s– diddicoy, 1900s– diddiki, 1900s– diddiky, 1900s– didecai, 1900s– didekei, 1900s– didicai, 1900s– didicoi, 1900s– didicoy, 1900s– didikai, 1900s– didikoi.
Origin: A borrowing from Romani. Etymons: Romani didikoi, didikai.
Etymology: < Romani didikoi, didikai (derogatory) Romani person with only one Romani parent; further etymology uncertain and disputed.
British (colloquial and regional). Now usually derogatory and offensive.
A Gypsy, a member of the Romani people; (also) a member of any traditionally itinerant community; a Traveller. Sometimes (chiefly in Romani usage): spec. a Gypsy or Traveller who is not solely of Romani descent.
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1853 ‘E. R.’ in M. Carpenter Juvenile Delinquents iv. 126 Gipseys, romaneys, didycoys, ‘our people’, as they call themselves.
1936 G. Greene Journey without Maps i. iii. 79 A didicoi..was the name they gave in Gloucestershire to gipsies.
1966 Guardian 3 Nov. 4/6Didicoys’—the Irish tinkers and other nomads around London who far outnumber the true Romanies.
1970 Jrnl. Gypsy Lore Soc. 49 148 There was only one [of the members of a dance company] of Romany blood amongst the whole 157 and he a Diddikai, whose claim to our blood was through his Mother's side.
1999 Independent 30 Nov. ii. 2/6 The driver..observed that there were ‘didicois’ on the train..and he admonished us not to give any more money to the ‘gypos’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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