Did you mayhaps mean one of these? pike, piker, pikes, piney, pokey
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A low-ranking soldier who merely carries a pike.
- v. UK, slang, derogatory to steal.
- n. UK, pejorative A working-class (often underclass) person; can vary from specifically Irish Travellers to gypsies or travellers from any ethnic background, but now increasingly used for any socially undesirable person, with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft, single-parent families and living on run-down estates.
Etymologies
- From obsolete pike, to depart or travel, or possibly from turnpike This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. - needs to be confirmed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Surely a ginger pikey is worse than both a ginger AND a pikey so why make it worse by advertising your new name? on February 12, 2010 at 3: 19 pm justabobby”
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“Some previous stuff I have done on thieving pikey bastards: assorted pikey pictures and my bit on how you can not call pikey thieving gippo scum itinerant travellers.”
“It is almost as if the word "pikey" had come into general use among the upper and middle classes for working people.”
“Marco has been condemned by the racial equality watchdog after he used the word "pikey" on his ITV show.”
“George Monbiot is horrified at racism towards gypsies, as shown by the burning of "pikey" effigies at a Sussex bonfire.”
“a pikey is a gypsy is a traveller. by nature they do not come from anywhere fixed ... therfore cant be a RACE!!”
“One of my closest friends is an Irish traveller and he uses the term' pikey 'all the time.”
“However, Ofcom dismissed other complaints against Top Gear for including a joke about Asperger's syndrome and the use of the word 'pikey'.”
“This has though been virtually impossible to achieve for the past two years, even if you try and "shop smart" and go to Aldi, Lidl and other shops that some might consider a bit "pikey".”
“One of my closest friends is an Irish traveller and he uses the term" pikey "all the time.”
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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P is for Porch Dog
My P Words
paddington, paddy wagon, paddy whack, paddywhack, paisano, pandemonium, pantaloon, pantaloons, paper tiger, papoose, parachute pants, parcel and 109 more...
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St. Trinian's (2007)
Words from a 2007 'St. Trinian's' film.
wreath, lully, insufferable, pikey, ugly betty, posh totty, nitwit, dosser, concoction, teetotal, blight, namby-pamby and 21 more...
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