Word: dik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dekka (or dik) stems from both the Hindustani and Romany (gypsy) languages. Common in the British Army in India since 1890, dikka was brought back to Britain by returning soldiers, gradually passed into cockney speech...
...shock to most big-game hunters. Klein had tracked for many of them - F. Trubee Davison, Paul Rainey, Archibald Harrison, the Aga Khan, Lady MacKenzie, Philip Plant. In over 30 years of following game trails, he captured or killed thousands of birds, snakes and beasts, from diminutive dik-diks to giant bull elephants. He stopped counting his lions in 1928, when the British limited each hunter to three kills a year. By that time he had bagged...