dukey
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -uːki
Noun[edit]
dukey (plural dukeys)
- (obsolete, UK, slang) A penny gaff.
- 1919, Thomas McDonald Rendle, Swings and Roundabouts: A Yokel in London, page 50:
- Delicate perfumes floated through the theatre; at the penny "dukey," fried fish and hot codlins reminded you more of food than fantasy.
- 1960, Theatre Notebook, volumes 14-16, page 122:
- Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances. […] Simpson, also the proprietor of a Dukey in Queen Square, Westminster, was the aristocrat of the Penny Gaffs.
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References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary