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dukey en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A penny gaff.
    • Delicate perfumes floated through the theatre; at the penny "dukey," fried fish and hot codlins reminded you more of food than fantasy. 1919, Thomas McDonald Rendle, Swings and Roundabouts: A Yokel in London, page 50:
    • 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. 1960, Theatre Notebook, volumes 14-16, page 122:

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dookie alternative lexicographic
dukeys Number=Plur lexicographic
dooky alternative lexicographic

dukey en · ADJ · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of dookie (“ostentatiously thick”).
    alt of dookie
    • […] dukey rope around his neck. “Looks like another gangsta bit the dust in a driveby in Inglewood last night," the voice announced from the radio." 2002, Christopher A. Darden, Dick Lochte, L.A. Justice (page 169)
    • Yo homeboy, bus this. You're clockin if you think me and my posse would bite your Nine or dukey rope. 1990, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, page 245: