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didicoi, didicoy slang or dial.|ˈdɪdɪkɔɪ|
Also didakai, -kei, diddekai, diddicoy, didekei, -ki, -kie, -ky, didikai, -koi, didycoy.
[Romany.]
A gipsy (see also quot. 1966).
1853‘E. R.’ in M. Carpenter Juvenile Delinquents iv. 126 Gipseys, romaneys, didycoys, ‘our people’, as they call themselves. 1907Daily Chron. 5 Oct. 6/2 Making raids on gipsy encampments with the object of getting them to send their young ‘didekies’ (children) to school. 1936G. Greene Journey without Maps i. iii. 79 A didicoi..was the name they gave in Gloucestershire to gipsies. 1936Punch 18 Mar. 321/3 Dappled with mire, By the didakai's fire. 1959‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder iv. 37 What's a man of your age and education doing wandering the country..? You don't strike me as a natural diddicoy type. 1960W. Robertson Shadow of Rope xiii. 131 Them there diddicoys is wholly afeard o' the ma'sh. 1961Guardian 23 May 5/5 These were the dreaded scrap-metal Didakeis. 1966Ibid. 3 Nov. 4/6 ‘Didicoys’—the Irish tinkers and other nomads around London who far outnumber the true Romanies. |