10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIDAKAI»
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Notes on Kurdish Dialects
Fedai malakai J payi Paraoit 2 bam s Fedai didakai 4 shao bi khaoit 5 bam. May I
be the sacrifice of thy house at Parao's foot, Sacrifice of thy eyes upon sleepless
nights. 29. Har l tiait 2 har chit 3 cham 4 wa gilawa 5 Chiin kaok 6 i nisar khial ...
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Shorter Slang Dictionary
Rhyming slang. Late 19th–20th centuries. 2 in not a dicky-bird, nothing, as in '
Can you see anything?' 'Not a dicky-bird.' Since around 1920 or earlier. di-da, di-
da, di-da a mocking burden to a long-drawn-out explanation or complaint.
didakai, ...
Paul Beale, Eric Partridge, Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
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The Chambers Dictionary
[Gr di- twice, and dakt\los finger, toe] didakai, didakei See diddicoy didapper ,/; '
dap-ir, n the dabchick or little grebe; someone who disappears and bobs up
again, [dive and dapper, a variant of dipper; cf OE dufedoppa pelican] didascalic
...
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The Romanitshels', Didakais and Folk-Lore Gazette Vol 1 No 1
Very well then. you'll pay ten shillings for each didakai, and fifteen shillings
apiece for the tut-tul-Iuls." "You dinelo," said Cooper's wife to her husband when
he got outside the Court. “ You'd better have pukker'd chi-chi at all, then the old
fool ...
5
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and ...
28. F edai malakai 1 payi Paraoit 2 him 3 Fedai didakai 4 shao bi khaoit 5 him.
May I be the sacrifice of thy house at Parao's foot, Sacrifice of thy eyes upon
sleepless nights. 29. Har 1 tiait 2 har chit 3 cham 4 we. gilawa 5 Chiin kaok6 i
nisar ...
6
Gypsies, the secret people
But as long as he can claim some Gypsy blood, he is a didakai. This word, it is
said, came about in a rather curious way. Long ago, when there were many more
pure-blooded Romanies in England than at the present day, the half castes were
...
Godfrey Edward Charles Webb, 1974
Angel turned around to face them, walking backward, and said something in a
language Sarah didn't recognize. Their amused expressions faded. "What's a
didakai?" Sarah asked when they had turned the corner. "What I am: a half-breed
.
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DECAPOD DEODAND DIABOLO DIDAKAI DIGRAPH DIPTYCH DOGBOLT ...
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Gypsy Identities 1500-2000: From Egipcyans and Moon-men to ...
... judgement and any departure from a fixed image of an ideal type inevitably led
to these conclusions. However, the impression that the racial definition of the true
Gypsy was always positive and romantic and that of the didakai always hostile ...
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The Marginalization of Shadow Minorities (Roma) and Its ...
Didecai (pronounced “dita-kai”); also Didakai or Diddicoy; literally meaning “see
here,” or “look-here fellow”; opposing definitions are found meaning “Romani Rai
” (true or real Romani) or a half-caste Gypsy or scapegoat; mixed-blood with less
...
