dekko

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani देखो / دیکھو (dekho), imperative of देखना / دیکھنا (dekhnā, “to see, to look”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛk.əʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkəʊ
• Homophone: deco (one pronunciation)

Noun

dekko (plural dekkos)

1. (British, slang) A look; a glance.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     But now there was a listlessness about her, not the listlessness of the cat Augustus but more that of the female in the picture in the Louvre, of whom Jeeves, on the occasion when he lugged me there to take a dekko at her, said that here was the head upon which all the ends of the world are come.

Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin

Etymology

From English let go.

Verb

dekko

1. to drop

References

• William McGregor (2004) The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia (in Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin), Taylor & Francis