caïquejee

English

Alternative forms

• caiquejee
• caiequejee

Etymology

Borrowed from French caïquejee, ultimately from Turkish kayıkçı (“boatman”).

Noun

caïquejee (plural caïquejees)

1. A person who rows a caique.
   • 2016, Laurence Kelly, Istanbul: A Traveller's Reader:

     Having risen so early, by eleven o'clock I begin to feel tired, and generally enjoy a sound sleep on the cushions under the fig-tree; the caïquejees slumbering profoundly meanwhile in the 'Edith Belina', and my tiny guard Johannachi either discussing melons and figs, or playing in the garden with the old man's dogs...

Translations

a person who rows a caïque

• German: Kaikdschi m
• Hungarian: kaikdzsi
• Turkish: kayıkçı (tr)