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dockie

noun

Etymology

From dock + -ie (forming colloquial nouns signifying the person associated with the suffixed noun).

  1. inherited from *dʰew-✻ — “dark”
  2. inherited from *dukkǭ✻
  3. inherited from *dokkā✻
  4. inherited from docce
  5. inherited from dokke
  6. suffixed as dockie — “dock + -ie”

Definitions

  1. A dockworker.

    • Longley once told me that in the late 1960s Murphy parked his car down at the docks while he was talking to Dougie Sproule and Putty Nose. Some young dockies who didn't know better broke into his car and stole his nice new golf clubs.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA