Sentence examples for pikeys from inspiring English sources

It is not just right-wing thugs who say this; ask any farmer in Kent, in south-east England, what he thinks of the "pikeys" who come calling.Surprisingly, there is no clear definition of what Gypsies are.

"Pikeys," he said.

The infantry on one side are made up of "pikeys," itinerants, outcasts, fashioning their own mores and their own language.

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And anyway, "pikeys" were being associated with faster, sexier cars to the denigration of boring businessmen.

The point, it seems, was to indicate that the Audi in question was built for businessmen, not "pikeys", and if the viewer wanted a more exciting drive, he or she would choose another car.

With some Sand-pikeys from Big Nothin' as reinforcements (and with a cut of Smoketown promised to them), can the Hartnett Fancy keep control of their territories?

In 2008, Clarkson called Hammond "such a pikey" for having a personalised car number plate, and in 2009 he described a certain model of car as "perfect … for anyone whose business is selling pegs and heather".

My ultimate recipe is proper pikey white bread, salty butter (none of that spread nonsense), Heinz tomato ketchup, a secret bit of orange marmalade – for the sweet and sour – a soft-fried egg and proper bang-on quality artisan dry-cure bacon.

But if our use of the word in a news headline is one thing, what about the BBC Trust's ruling that, because "pikey" has come into common use among "a number of people" to mean "cheap", it can be used legitimately in non-news programming without people associating it with the Gypsy and Traveller communities.

In The Independent's reporting of the "pikey" ruling, the question arose as to whether it was appropriate to use the term itself in a front-page headline.