PK, noun
- Forms:
- Also P.K.
- Origin:
- Rhodesian (now Zimbabwean) English.
colloquial
Initial letters of piccanin(ny) kaya, see piccanin adjective sense 2.
1966 I. Vaughan These Were my Yesterdays 151‘A baboon behind “picaninny kaiah” tried to scratch my tail.’ Charles said, ‘You must be mad, baboons don’t do that.’ Old man said, ‘It did — I saw it run behind the P.K.’
Initial letters of piccanin(ny) kaya, see piccanin adjective sense 2.
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