dikk

English

Etymology

From Hindi [Term?].

Noun

dikk (uncountable)

1. (India, archaic) Worry; trouble; hassle.
   • 1873, Wilfrid Heeley, A Lay of Modern Darjeeling:

     And Beaufort learned in the law, / And Atkinson the Sage, / And if his locks are white as snow, / 'Tis more from dikk than age!

   • 1942, Francis Yeats-Brown, Indian Pageant, page 126:

     He hated any sort of dikk — that is, unnecessary trouble or fuss — and he never bothered his head about accounts.