Talk:chekay

RFV discussion: April–May 2022
Australia: interjection meaning "wait!". I don't think this is English. Equinox ◑ 09:58, 4 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Seems to be from this dubious video: . Many commenters are saying that they haven't heard of these words. Same reaction on Reddit. Equinox ◑ 10:16, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * As an Aussie I've never heard this, although a couple of the other words in the video are Pig-Latin-esque eshay slang, so if this term belonged to that lect that might explain why I hadn't heard it. The word has the shape of Pig Latin, although I can't manage to unravel it to an English word. (FWIW almost everything else in the video is plausible Australian slang - the Redditors do a pretty good job of breaking it down.) This, that and the other (talk) 11:11, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Several people in the comments section to the YT video mentioned above claim that this is a borrowing from the Macedonian word че́ка or a related Slavic word and further claim that such Slavic words were borrowed from the English word check in any case. I’ve no idea how accurate such claims are though.. Overlordnat1 (talk) 09:14, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * this seems to indicate that it is treated as code-switching, and reinforces the slavic connection. Kiwima (talk) 21:53, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Nice find there, Kiwima. Easy to mark it RFV-failed on that basis (well, and the fact that it's unfindable anywhere else) This, that and the other (talk) 13:42, 5 May 2022 (UTC)