Meanings
- IndiaarchaicuncountableWorry; trouble; hassle.
He hated any sort of dikk — that is, unnecessary trouble or fuss — and he never bothered his head about accounts.
1942, Francis Yeats-Brown, Indian Pageant, page 1261 more example
And Beaufort learned in the law, / And Atkinson the Sage, / And if his locks are white as snow, / 'Tis more from dikk than age!
1873, Wilfrid Heeley, A Lay of Modern Darjeeling
Origin
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