dikkenek
🇧🇪 French slang from Belgium
What does “dikkenek” mean?
show-off, loudmouth
Example
“Fais pas ton dikkenek !”
Stop showing off!
Good to know
From Brussels Flemish 'thick neck'. Also the title of a cult Belgian comedy.
Who you can say it to
Only with close friends
🙄 Teasing
The textbook way to say it: un vantard
Heard in a conversation
Haggling at the Brussels flea market
Laura Septante ? Pour ce brol ? Demande-lui une fois s'il fait trente.
Seventy? For that junk? Just ask him if he'll do thirty.
Maxime Il dit cinquante, pas moins. C'est un vrai dikkenek, celui-là.
He says fifty, no less. He's a real show-off, that one.
Laura Bon, cinquante, ça va. Tu sais la porter jusqu'au tram ?
OK, fifty is fine. Can you carry it to the tram?
💎 How other countries say “a show-off”
- 🇨🇮 boucantierWest Africa
- 🇫🇷 frimeurFrance
More from Belgium
- barakitrashy person, lowlife
- rapiatstingy
- snulidiot, dope (Brussels)
- zievereerblabbermouth, someone talking nonsense
- zotcrazy, nuts
- kletidiot, numpty (Brussels)
- ballotfool, clot
- lourdannoying, a pain (of a person)
Songs from Belgium
- Papaoutai · StromaeLevel A2
- Bruxelles je t'aime · AngèleLevel A2
- Alors on danse · StromaeLevel B1
- Santé · StromaeLevel B1
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