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deeks - "look" as in "Gie’s a deeks / Gimme a look" caught my eye. In East London my parents' generation sometimes said "gissa dekko" aka "give us a dekko" aka
by kjellsbells 2y ago
deeks - "look" as in "Gie’s a deeks / Gimme a look" caught my eye.
In East London my parents' generation sometimes said "gissa dekko" aka "give us a dekko" aka "give us a look" - but the dekko there came from Hindi, "dekho" (देखो) meaning a casual look or a look-see.
- ahazred8ta 2y agoWhen my elderly neighbor came down from Quebec as a young factory worker, her roommate asked her "Wudjagunnadoodamarra?", and it took quite a while to get her to say "What are you going to do tomorrow?" We got "shell out" from belts of wampum, and woodchuck from Algonquin indian 'wuchak'.