dekko
/ˈdɛk.əʊ/
dekko noun: a look; a glance.
Noun
dekko (plural dekkos)
- A look; a glance.
- But now there was a listlessness about her, not the listlessness of the cat Augustus but more that of the female in the picture in the Louvre, of whom Jeeves, on the occasion when he lugged me there to take a dekko at her, said that here was the head upon which all the ends of the world are come.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
- Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All...2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN
dekko meaning in Tamil
dekko in Tamil
- நொடிநோக்கு
Forms of dekko
| plural | dekkos |
|---|---|
| alternative form | decko |
Origin of dekko
Borrowed from Hindustani देखो / دیکھو (dekho), imperative of देखना / دیکھنا (dekhnā, “to see, to look”).
Words that rhyme with dekko
Questions about dekko
- What does dekko mean?
- Dekko means a look; a glance.
- What is dekko in Tamil?
- Dekko in Tamil is நொடிநோக்கு. See Dekko meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dekko?
- Dekko is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dekko?
- Dekko is pronounced /ˈdɛk.əʊ/.
- What is the plural of dekko?
- The plural of dekko is dekkos.
Words near dekko in the dictionary
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