pikey

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pike (type of fish).

   “In 1876, in twelve fishings in the same months, there were caught 31 Pikeys, 4 Spotted Dogs, and 441 Nowds.”

2. sıfat Associated with or filled with pike (fish).

   “The Broadland waters are pikey waters. There is no doubt that if Norfolk is famous for any one species of fish, then it is for none other than Esox himself, the predatory pike.”

3. isim An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage.

   ““They must be the pikeys who live up there. They're a nasty bunch. Shouldn't get mixed up with them.” “Well, we told them to fuck off, they didn't seem that nasty to me! What are pikeys anyway?” “Well, they're like vagabonds.””

4. isim A working-class (often underclass) person with negative qualities stereotypically ascribed to itinerant people, including rowdiness, theft and poor hygiene.

   “But if there's one thing he hates more than pikeys, it's posh people.”

5. sıfat Associated with pikeys.

   “Blimey. The least pikey place on the planet.”

6. fiil To steal.

   “>It's getting hold of a copy that isn't pikeyed that I'm having >difficulty with :-(”