Definitions For Pikey

Etymology 1

pike + y.

Noun

PIKEY (plural PIKEYs) (informal) A pike (fish).

Adjective

Associated with or filled with pike (fish).

Etymology 2

Possibly from obsolete pike, , depart or travel, or possibly from turnpike.Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (2010, , page 218: "From pike verb, perh. in the earlier sense, to depart." The verb is derived from the stereotype that gypsy, gypsies or other travellers are thieves.

Noun

PIKEY (plural PIKEYs) (British, pejorative, offensive) A working-class (often underclass) person; can vary from specifically irish travellers to gypsies or travellers from any ethnic background, but now increasingly used for any socially undesirable person, with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft, single-parent families and living on run-down estates.

Adjective

(UK, slang, derogatory) Associated with members of the above-mentioned underclass.

Verb

(UK, slang, derogatory) To steal.

See also

charva chav gypsy yob

References

Is Pikey a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) NO
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
14

The word Pikey is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends

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