dukeyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -uːki

名詞

dukey (複数形 dukeys)

1. (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.

別の表記

• dookie, dooky

参照

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

アナグラム

• yuked