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Gammerstang commented on the word play dikkop
(verb) - To try to deceive, as plovers do by feigning a broken wing when one approaches their eggs or young. A term of reproach meaning numbskull. From Dutch dik, thick, and kop, head.
--Charles Pettman's Africanderisms: A Glossary of South African Colloquial Words and Phrases, 1913
January 17, 2018