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==English==
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===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈpaɪ.ki/}}
* {{audio|en|En-au-pikey.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|aɪki|s=2}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{suffix|en|pike|y}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|informal}} A [[pike]] {{gl|type of fish}}.
#* {{quote-book|en|title=A book on angling|author=Francis|year=1867|page=93|passage=The first time he comes to the surface of the water he gasps for breath, his huge mouth gapes, he gives his head a shake and out tumbles the bait, hooks and all, not one of them having had hold, and away goes '''pikey''' quite satisfied with his entertainment pro tem., and wondering what that ugly two-legged moster with the hop pole in his hand, and who looked in such a state of perplexity and stew, had to do with the matter}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1881|author=Robert Lloyd Patterson|title=The Birds, Fishes & Cetacea of Belfast Lough|page=226
|passage=In 1876, in twelve fishings in the same months, there were caught 31 '''Pikeys''', 4 Spotted Dogs, and 441 Nowds.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Big Fat Gypsy Weddings|author=Jim Nally|year=2011|ISBN=1444729853|passage=A '''pikey''''s a pike. It's the dirtiest fish in the water.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Grant's Guide to Fishes: The Fisherman's Bible|author=E.M. Grant|year=2015|ISBN=1925271706|passage=The boated '''Pikey''' makes a series of tailstands as it lunges about, biting at feet, bags, hands, creels and thwarts.}}

====Adjective====
{{en-adj}}

# Associated with or filled with [[pike]] (fish).
#* {{quote-book|en|title=The Book of the Pike|author=Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell|year=1865|page=126|passage=Like its schoolboy master, the rod built from the cane then chosen has since had many a narrow escape "by flood and fell," and not a few damaged 'tips,' aye, and 'joints' too; but its main timbers are as sound as ever, and I trust may yet be destined to wave death over many a '''pikey''' pool and glittering torrent when the hand that chose them is no longer able to do justice to their supple graces.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=The Fishing Gazette [New Series] - Issues 4560-4585|year=1965|page=14|passage=The Broadland waters are '''pikey''' waters. There is no doubt that if Norfolk is famous for any one species of fish, then it is for none other than Esox himself, the predatory pike.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=British Freshwater Fishes: The Story of Their Evolution|author=Len Cacutt|year=1979|page=98|ISBN=|passage=The name gar-pike has gone some way to suggest the non-existent relationship, while (two dorsal fins notwithstanding) the pike-perches look remarkably ''''pikey''''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Fly-Fishing: For Pike|author=Michael Jensen|year=2003|page=12|ISBN=0954211790|passage=We travel along tortuous forest roads in the most ''''pikey'''' part ofVarmland — the whole time alongside water.}}

===Etymology 2===
Possibly from obsolete {{m|en|pike||depart or travel}}, or possibly from ''[[turnpike]]''.<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang'' (2010, {{ISBN|0199232059}}, page 218: "From ''pike'' verb, perh. in the earlier sense, to depart."</ref> The verb is derived from the [[stereotype]] that the [[Romani]] people or other [[travellers]] are thieves.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|UK|Ireland|ethnic slur|offensive}} An itinerant person, especially one of [[Romani]] or [[Irish Traveller]] heritage.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2012|author=Pat Coppard|title=In Spite of Everything: a Life-story|isbn=1467883964|page=15|passage=“They must be the '''pikeys''' who live up there. They're a nasty bunch. Shouldn't get mixed up with them.” “Well, we told them to fuck off, they didn't seem that nasty to me! What are '''pikeys''' anyway?” “Well, they're like vagabonds.”}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Belgravia - Volume 62|year=1887|page=416|passage=Gipsies and the '''pikey''' race generally were a class outside Lord Sandbar's previous experience, and he listened greedily.}}
# {{lb|en|UK|Ireland|pejorative|offensive}} A working-class (often underclass) person with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft and living on rundown [[estate]]s.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Jonathan Trigell|title=Cham|isbn=1780336810|passage=But if there's one thing he hates more than '''pikeys''', it's posh people.}}

====Adjective====
{{en-adj}}

# {{lb|en|UK|Irish|slang|derogatory}} Associated with [[pikeys]].
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=September 9 2006|author=Huge|title=Re: Oh for FU--S sake!|newsgroup=uk.rec.driving
|passage=Blimey. The least '''pikey''' place on the planet.}}
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=October 18 2007|author=PC Paul|title=Re: Exhaust security bolts help|newsgroup=uk.rec.cars.maintenance
|passage=> You could try moving somewhere less '''pikey'''? <!--Or... just fit a more pikey exhaust. Or at least a *visibly* more pikey exhaust...-->}}
#* '''2012''' March 11, "Lieutenant Scott", ''Re: Definition of "loading" in a parking space'', in {{monospace|uk.rec.driving}}, ''Usenet'', quoting another user:
#*: >> > No, you're more '''pikey''' than a traffic warden.
#*: >> >> Nothing is more '''pikey''' than a traffic warden, even an immigrant.
#*: >> >> > Not even a Glaswegian?

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|UK|Irish|slang|derogatory}} To [[steal]].
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=October 25 2004|author=Lister|title=Re: Monday, Monday, Play, Want, Bin|newsgroup=uk.games.video.misc
|passage=>It's getting hold of a copy that isn't '''pikeyed''' that I'm having >difficulty with :-(}}
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=September 29 2006|author=Conor|title=Re: Car legally removed or stolen?|newsgroup=uk.rec.cars.misc
|passage=Agree with Adrian about it being '''Pikeyed'''. At least you've a cheque to go buy something else.}}
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=August 9 2007|author=Diablos Rojos|title=Re: Special offer to all Scummers|newsgroup=alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united
|passage=Rumour has it that you once posting something interesting that was '''pikeyed''' straight from scrotexes lame troll book.}}

=====See also=====
* {{l|en|charva}}
* {{l|en|chav}}
* {{l|en|gypsy}} (offensive)
* {{l|en|yob}}

=====References=====
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{{C|en|People|Pikes (fish)}}

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