Play Dikkop

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, 1913Jeffrey Kacirk. Forgotten English: A 365-Day Calendar of Vanishing Vocabulary and Folklore for 2011. Pomegranate