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单词 pikey
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pikeyn.adj.1

Brit. /ˈpʌɪki/, U.S. /ˈpaɪki/
Forms: 1800s– pikey, 1800s– piky, 1900s– pikie, 1900s– pyky, 1900s– pyky. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pike n.7, -y suffix6.
Etymology: < pike n.7 + -y suffix6. Compare piker n.2
Chiefly English regional (south-eastern) slang (derogatory). Now considered offensive.
A. n.
A traveller, a gypsy; a vagrant, a tramp; (hence more generally) a lower-class person, regarded as coarse or disreputable.Earliest in compound pikey-man n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] > Gipsies or Romanies > person
gyptian1533
Egyptian1538
Bohemian1574
Gypsy1574
tinker1575
Zingani1581
Zingaro1600
moonman1608
faw1756
vagabond1756
Zingara1756
gitano1761
gitanac1770
nomade1798
Roman1800
Romani1800
Tzigane1802
Zigeuner1802
Sinti1827
piker1838
pikey1838
Rom1841
Zincalo1841
Romanichal1843
nomadian1847
Romany chai1851
didicoi1853
Bedouin1863
gyppo1868
gyp1886
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1838 Times 27 Aug. 6/2 A desperate affray occurred at Eastchurch in Sheppey, between the resident labourers and the ‘pikey-men’, as they are termed, or strangers who have come into the island to harvesting.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Piky, a gipsey. Kent.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 116 Piky,..a turnpike traveller; a vagabond; and so generally a low fellow.
1905 F. M. Hueffer Soul of London ii. 44 These people are not mere picturesque survivals; their number increases day by day;..but I cannot claim to have entered London in a pikey's cart.
1921 A. E. Coppard Adam & Eve & pinch Me 123 Mrs. Pellegrini had a family of pikeys who traded in horses, willow-wattles, and rocksalt.
1955 P. Wildeblood Against Law 125 My family's all Pikeys, but we ain't on the road no more!
1973 P. Lee in J. Sandford Rokkering to Gorjios (2000) i. 29 Then there's the Didecoi, which is very rare, a Tinker girl marrying a Romany Chal, and you get the Pikie which are Tinker and Romany mixed blood.
1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 95Pikey’ is an old word for gypsy.
2000 Guardian 20 Apr. 3/2 Farms in Norfolk have long attracted travelling people... To Martin, they were nothing but ‘light-fingered pykies’.
B. adj.1
Of or relating to such people; (also in later use) squalid, disreputable, vulgar.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [adjective] > of ill repute
unhonesta1382
ill-famed1483
scoury?a1513
renownless1552
uncredited1586
bankrupt1601
discredited1605
disopinioned1622
creditless1660
unreputable1688
irreputable1709
low-lifed?1750
louche1819
characterless1825
disreputable1828
pikey1838
shady1862
lowlife1939
sleazoid1976
the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [adjective] > Gipsy or Romany
nomadian1591
Gypsy1595
Bohemian1665
gypsyish1787
nomad1798
nomadical1801
nomadic1818
nomade1819
Romani1837
pikey1838
Romanian1841
Roman1851
Tzigane1853
mobile1866
Rom1906
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp
vagrant1461
loiteringa1533
way-walkinga1535
roguing1566
roguish1572
vagabondical1576
vagabond1585
vagabondinga1586
land-loping1587
vagrom1600
leap-land1614
vagabondial1615
vaguea1627
gangrel1650
vagabondious1661
going1737
gang-there-out1815
tramping1828
vagabondizing1830
pikey1838
beachcombing1845
runagate1877
going-about1886
bummy1890
1838Pikey-men [see sense A.].
1876 B. C. Curteis In Marsh v. 147 Some foreigners crossing the Marsh with their pikey carts, on their way towards the hop-picking districts.
1920 R. S. Kendall Luck of Mounted i. 25 He was fool enough to go into one o' these here Romany Pikey dives for to get his fortune told.
1989 Guardian Weekly 18 June 24/5 The reaction of the Glyndebourne audience to the lively apparition of ‘one of them’ (I mean a plebby, pikey, likely lad) on stage is equally collectable.
1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 95 In the old days the pikey people would go and park up in Markhouse Lane in the autumn.
1998 Edinb. Student (Edinb. Univ. Student Newspaper Soc.) 19 Nov. (Review section) 3/5 Crawl down into the underground of dance culture and what do you find? Lots of pikey students organizing their own nights, that's what.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pikeyadj.2

Brit. /ˈpʌɪki/, U.S. /ˈpaɪki/
Forms: 1800s– pikey, 1900s– piky.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pike n.3, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < pike n.3 + -y suffix1.
Of or relating to pike (pike n.3); containing pike.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [adjective] > abounding in pike
pikey1864
1864 Fisherman's Mag. & Rev. 1 296 Many a pikey pool and glitterring [sic] torrent.
1877 G. MacDonald Marquis of Lossie II. xi. 120 A lake of deep fresh water,..the pikey multitude within.
1886 Angler's Jrnl. 13 Nov. 543/1 We..obtained permission to fish, and..examined the water, which certainly looked very ‘pikey’.
1900 J. Bickerdyke in W. Senior Pike & Perch viii. 131 My live-bait, which was swimming about in one of the pikiest corners of the water, remained untouched.
1902 M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp 90 He is a long way from other gudgeon, in a deep pikey hole.
1967 J. A. Baker Peregrine iii. 120 Something splashes in the cold, piky depth of the brook.
1990 Sports Illustr. 10 Sept. 154/3 We caught brook trout after brook trout..from the pikey water, until our arms ached.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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