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- Dictionarydekko/ˈdɛkəʊ/
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- 1. a quick look or glance: informal British "come and have a dekko at this"
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British slang a look; glance; view (esp in the phrase take a dekko (at)).... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
Noun. Hindi dekho look!, imperative plural of dekhnā to see, from Sanskrit dṛś to see; akin to Sanskrit dṛṣṭi seeing, sight, eye. Love words? You must — there are over 200,000 words in our free online dictionary, but you are looking for one that’s only in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.
Dekko definition: a look or glance. See examples of DEKKO used in a sentence.
‘Have a dekko’ is first found in print in January 1856 in an appropriate place – Allen’s Indian Mail, a newspaper devoted to news of India and China aimed at the families of servicemen stationed there: The natives of the place flock round, with open mouths and straining eyes, to have a dekko.
Definition of dekko noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
British slang for a look.
Noun. 1. dekko - British slang for a look. looking, looking at, look - the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him".
From Hindustani देखना / دیکھنا (dekhnā, “to see, to look”). Comes directly from the Hindi "Dekho" (see) From Wiktionary.
A complete guide to the word "DEKKO": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
Aug 12, 2024 · dekko (plural dekkos) (UK, Ireland, slang) A look; a glance. But now there was a listlessness about her, not the listlessness of the cat Augustus but more that of the female in the picture in the Louvre, of whom Jeeves, on the occasion when he lugged me there to take a at her, said that here was the head upon which all the ends of the world are ...
