dikk
Borrowed into Anglo-Indian English from Hindustani 'diqq' (distress, nuisance), itself from Arabic.
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Borrowed into Anglo-Indian English from Hindustani 'diqq' (distress, nuisance), itself from Arabic. Commonly spelled 'dikk' or 'dik' in 18th–19th century British India writing; equivalent in register to 'bother' or 'grief', and still echoed in modern South Asian 'dikkat' (problem, difficulty).
He said the customs officer had given him no end of dikk over a perfectly ordinary parcel.
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(India, archaic) Worry; trouble; hassle.
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