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The Oxford English Dictionary traced the earliest use of "pikey" to The Times in August 1838, which referred to strangers who had come to the Isle of Sheppey as "pikey-men". [10] [full citation needed] In 1847, J. O. Halliwell in his Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words recorded the use of "pikey" to mean a gypsy. [10]
English-speaking nations of the former British Empire may also use this slang, but also incorporate their own slang words to reflect their different cultures. Not only is the slang used by British expats, but some of these terms are incorporated into other countries' everyday slang, such as in Australia, Canada and Ireland.
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The word Pikey a slang term for several distinct types of people: "A traveller, a gypsy; a vagrant, a tramp;". If this page is not to be a dab page (which would not really make sense as the bots would report link to it as errors) then it is best to direct it to Wiktionary, because for example you first state above "Pikey is a name, bad or good ...
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