Tikkiny
n.— «Words like “yoot,” “nuff” and “nang”—meaning child, very and good, respectively—are forming the new accepted slang in London’s inner boroughs, where the city’s cockney phrases are being pushed out by a new type of multicultural-influenced speech, dubbed Jafaican and Tikkiny.» —“Cockney accent being swept aside in London by new hip hop-inspired dialect” Jamaica Observer (Kingston) Apr. 16, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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