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English
Pronunciation
Noun
dukey (plural dukeys)
- (obsolete, UK, slang) A penny gaff.
1919, Thomas McDonald Rendle, Swings and Roundabouts: A Yokel in London, page 50:Delicate perfumes floated through the theatre; at the penny "dukey," fried fish and hot codlins reminded you more of food than fantasy.
1960, Theatre Notebook, volumes 14-16, page 122:Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances. […] Simpson, also the proprietor of a Dukey in Queen Square, Westminster, was the aristocrat of the Penny Gaffs.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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