Dekko

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdekəʊ/

Origin

From Hindustani देखना
دیکھنا (dekhnā, "to see, to look"). Comes directly from the Hindi "Dekho" (see)

Full definition of dekko

Noun

1. (British, slang) A look.
• Wodehouse Offing|XII|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.
2. (British, slang) A glance.----