单词 | pikey |
释义 | pikeyn.adj.1 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 95 ‘Pikey’ 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 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). < n.adj.11838adj.21864 |
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