dekko

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdekəʊ/, SAMPA: /'dek@u/

Etymology

From Hindustani देखना / دیکھنا (dekhnā), to see, to look.Comes directly from the Hindi "Dekho" (see)

Noun

dekko (plural dekkos)

1. (UK, slang) A look.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII:

     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.

2. (UK, slang) A glance.