What does the term pykie mean?

Answer 1

It's a friendly form of piker. In English and French (piquier) it means the same thing. Usually dumba$$.

Comes from gypsies

Answer 2

Pikie is slang for gysies/Irish travellers.

Traditionally the word referred to Gypsies or vagrants. The first recorded use was in 1847. Though sources agree that the word derives from "pike" ,the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (which gives pikie as an alternative spelling) indicates that the "precise origins of these terms (and the American term piker) [are] unclear because of the convergence of two similar senses of pike": the first is turnpike, a road on which a toll is collected; the second is an archaic British English verb meaning to depart or travel.

Answer 3

I thought it just meant someone who was scruffy. But having read the answers, it seems like it traditionally meant gypsies/nomads and now means a sector of people known as (In England) chavs, scallies(In the North), townies or rudies.

Chavs, scallies, townies or rudies wear a lot of sports clothes, have cheap-looking gold jewellery (normally from Argos), their hair is always long and/or dyed either brassy blonde or flat purpley-red, sometimes tied up in a tight high ponytail (also known as a Croydon facelift), they are pale and miserable-looking or they have disgustingly lurid orange foundation/fake tan and they like 'bling bling'(Look at the jewellery the likes of P.Diddy, Ludacris, Nelly and 50 Cent wear and think of it as equally tasteless, but a whole lot cheaper).

Their language tends to be much coarser than that of other breeds of humans as well, with a lot of swearing. Normally, these people come from the less well-off areas of the country and therefore the youths 'hang out' in parks/streets/other local town areas.

P.S. I'm from Croydon and DEFINITELY not one of those!! (I have short, dark-brown hair with blue flashes and am alternative. Or at least, I think of myself as alternative.)

Answer 4

Someone who dresses up in sports clothing, wears cheap gold and has an attitude problem e.g. they think their hard, but their just wannabe gangsters.

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