Editing Pikey (section)

{{short description|British pejorative term referring to a person from the Traveller community}}
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'''Pikey''' ({{IPAc-en|'|p|aɪ|k|i:}}; also spelled '''pikie''', '''pykie''')<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7EGFDwAAQBAJ&q=%22pikie%22+traveller&pg=PA33|quote=pikie.|title=Gypsy and Traveller Girls: Silence, Agency and Power|first=Geetha|last=Marcus|date=25 January 2019|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783030037031}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/chunnelamazingst00feth|url-access=registration|quote=pykie.|title=The Chunnel: The Amazing Story of the Undersea Crossing of the English Channel|first=Drew|last=Fetherston|date=17 July 1997|publisher=Times Books|isbn=9780812921984 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> is a derogatory slang term referring to [[Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people (UK)|Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people]]. It is used mainly in the United Kingdom and in Ireland to refer to people who belong to [[Itinerant groups in Europe|groups which had a traditional travelling lifestyle]].<ref>{{cite web | quote = "It was because there's always someone out there, I feared, who was going to tap me on the shoulder and say "you dear, who do you think you are and where do you get off at, you're a gyspy, you're a pikey"| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2009/06/25/gloria_buckley_lw_2009_feature.shtml |title="Very Important Pikey" |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 November 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |quote = "Then, a year or so ago, I noticed the words "pikey" and "chav" were being used as synonyms for "common"|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/200502280039 |title=New Statesman – Andrew Billen – Common problem |publisher=[[New Statesman]] |access-date=8 November 2009 }}</ref> Groups referred to with this term include [[Irish Travellers]], [[Romanichal|English Gypsies]], [[Kale (Welsh Roma)|Welsh Kale]], [[Scottish Lowlands|Scottish Lowland]] Travellers, [[Scottish Highlands|Scottish Highland]] Travellers, and [[Showman|Funfair Travellers]]. These groups consider the term to be highly derogatory.<ref name="offensive"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/gypsy-travellers-discrimination-stigma-poster-campaign|title=Fighting Gypsy discrimination: 'What people ask me is insulting'|first=Amelia|last=Gentleman|newspaper=The Guardian |date=16 May 2017}}</ref>

It is used by extension as a [[Class discrimination|classist]] insult against marginalised [[working class]] communities, similar to the term [[chav]].<ref name="classed intersections">{{cite book |last1=Gidley |first1=Ben |last2=Rooke |first2=Alison|editor1-last=Taylor |editor1-first=Yvette |title=Classed Intersections |date=2010 |publisher=Routledge |chapter=Asdatown: The Intersections of Classed Places and Identities}}</ref>