dikk
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Noun
editdikk (uncountable)
- (India, archaic) Worry; trouble; hassle.
- 1873, Wilfrid Heeley, A Lay of Modern Darjeeling:
- And Beaufort learned in the law, / And Atkinson the Sage, / And if his locks are white as snow, / 'Tis more from dikk than age!
- 1942, Francis Yeats-Brown, Indian Pageant, page 126:
- He hated any sort of dikk — that is, unnecessary trouble or fuss — and he never bothered his head about accounts.