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dacoo

dacoo is the archaic form 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 dacoo

pluraldacoos

Questions about dacoo

What is dacoo the archaic form of?
Dacoo is the archaic form of dacoit.

Words near dacoo in the dictionary

  1. dacoity
  2. Dacological
  3. Dacology
  4. Dacomania
  5. dacomitinib
  6. dacoo
  7. dacoos
  8. dacopafant
  9. Dacorum
  10. Dacosta
  11. Dacostas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dacoo (page history and authors); dacoit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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