Sorry about the double reply - fat fingers! The word ‘pikey’ is a derogatory, abusive term for people of Romany heritage I believe. Romanies are a distinct ethnic group.
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I would say it is a word used for travellers who are generally Irish. I don't use it (check my posting history) but I would suggest it offensive rather than racist.
It originated as a nickname for workers that operated Turnpikes on canals in the same way as Chippy, Sparky etc.
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Is he the only person on the planet who doesn't think he is a low life twat.. even his mum thinks he is a cunt
Apparently city have a grealish cam. Its a plank of wood.
Saw west ham fans as they normally do antagonising us and people on train. They must be exhausted always feeling inferior to us and behaving like that. Getting a bit embarrassing being better than them all the time.
No but should have been!
Towards the end of first half it was "No Alarms and No Surprises"
Same album though
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I had trouble sleeping last night so have you found your bobble hat yet or another bad night ahead!
I wish Sol had been white... Cos he STILL would've got the same level of abuse.
Colour had NOTHING to do with the vitriol of hate aimed at him.
No, it's gone, just have to buy a new one
True but definitely homophobic abuse was.
Interesting; I was wondering where the term came from and after reading your post looked it up. Wiki gives a definitive history, including your info. As always, it is a complex issue, and not exclusively about race, but class, lifestyle etc. I suppose I feel it is a reductive term that diminishes people to a stereotype that makes us feel better about hating them. Which, I think, is at the root of racist slurs too. Anyway, I’m on the whisky mac now and quickly losing the power of coherent thought. Have a good evening!
I think the majority of Spurs fans did that. He'll always be a vile piece of shit.
I still think the HIV line was about him being gay. It hasn't aged well at all, but the point was to hurt the Judas fuck.
I have read in the past that the term Gypsy has origins in Egypt where the travellers were thought to have come from?
Apart from inbreeding this text puts the Isle Of Sheppey on the map again!
The Oxford English Dictionary traced the earliest use of "pikey" to The Times in August 1838, which referred to strangers who had come to the Isle of Sheppey as "pikey-men".[10] In 1847, J. O. Halliwell in his Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words recorded the use of "pikey" to mean a gypsy.[10] In 1887, W. D. Parish and W. F. Shaw in the Dictionary of Kentish Dialect recorded the use of the word to mean "a turnpike traveller; a vagabond; and so generally a low fellow".[10]
The Oxford English Dictionary traced the earliest use of "pikey" to The Times in August 1838, which referred to strangers who had come to the Isle of Sheppey as "pikey-men".[10] In 1847, J. O. Halliwell in his Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words recorded the use of "pikey" to mean a gypsy.[10] In 1887, W. D. Parish and W. F. Shaw in the Dictionary of Kentish Dialect recorded the use of the word to mean "a turnpike traveller; a vagabond; and so generally a low fellow".[10]