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Meaning of dekko | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈdɛk.əʊ

Definitions

A look; a glance.

Ireland, UK, slang

Examples

“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.”
“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 camouflaged. White.””

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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