dukey

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːki

Noun

dukey (plural dukeys)

1. (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.

Alternative forms

• dookie, dooky

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• yuked