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"Pikey"
Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (Halliwell, 1889) lists ‘piker’ as an East Sussexword for a tramp and ‘pikey’ as a Kent word for a gypsy. A Dictionary of The Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (Parish & Shaw, 1887) defines a...