dekko

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dekko

/ˈdɛk.əʊ/

Sounds like deco (one pronunciation) · Rhymes with -ɛkəʊ

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Borrowed from Hindustani देखो / دیکھو (dekho), imperative of देखना / دیکھنا (dekhnā, “to see, to look”).

noun dekkos · decko

Ireland, UK, 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 dekko at her, said that here was the head upon which all the ends of the world are come.

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@misc{dekko_2026,
  title = {dekko},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dekko},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}