dikk

D2I1K5K5

noun

Worry; trouble; hassle.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noundikk (uncountable)
  1. 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 126
    1 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

  1. Hindi[Term?]
  2. Englishdikk

From Hindi [Term?].

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