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dakoo

dakoo is the dated 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 dakoo

pluraldakoos

Questions about dakoo

What is dakoo the dated form of?
Dakoo is the dated form of dacoit.

Words near dakoo in the dictionary

  1. dakoiti
  2. dakoities
  3. dakoitis
  4. dakoits
  5. dakoity
  6. dakoo
  7. dakoos
  8. Dakota
  9. Dakota City
  10. Dakota County
  11. Dakota Formation

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