dukey

English

Noun

dukey (plural dukeys)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A penny gaff.
    • 1919, Thomas McDonald Rendle, Swings and Roundabouts: A Yokel in London (page 50)
      Delicate perfumes floated through the theatre; at the penny "dukey," fried fish and hot codlins reminded you more of food than fantasy.
    • 1960, Theatre Notebook (volumes 14-16, page 122)
      Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances. […] Simpson, also the proprietor of a Dukey in Queen Square, Westminster, was the aristocrat of the Penny Gaffs.

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References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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