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dacoid

dacoid is the alternative spelling of dacoit.

Meaning of dacoit

Noun

dacoit (plural dacoits)

  1. (India, Myanmar, Pakistan) A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India.
    • […] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts.1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok

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Forms of dacoid

pluraldacoids

Questions about dacoid

What is dacoid the alternative spelling of?
Dacoid is the alternative spelling of dacoit.

Words near dacoid in the dictionary

  1. dacnis
  2. dacnises
  3. Daco-
  4. Daco-Romanian
  5. Daco-Thracian
  6. dacoid
  7. dacoids
  8. dacoit
  9. dacoitage
  10. dacoited
  11. dacoitee

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