dikk

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Hindi [Term?]

Noun[edit]

dikk (uncountable)

  1. (India, archaic) Worry; trouble; hassle.
    • 1873, Wilfrid Heeley, A Lay of Modern Darjeeling:
      And Beaufort learned in the law, / And Atkinson the Sage, / And if his locks are white as snow, / 'Tis more from dikk than age!
    • 1942, Francis Yeats-Brown, Indian Pageant, page 126:
      He hated any sort of dikk — that is, unnecessary trouble or fuss — and he never bothered his head about accounts.
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