Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Anglo-Ind.) to annoy or pester.

1841		F.J. Bellew ‘Memoirs of a Griffin’ in Asiatic Jrnl & Mthly Register May 52: However, I don’t think we have gained much by his budlee (successor), our new kummadan (commandant) [...] who dicks our lives out with kuddum ootou (drill) [...] and gallees (abuses) the Jacks (sepoys).
1854		Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Mar. 27/2: Bridaier is a jolly old brick. Gives no end of leave and never ‘dicks’ anybody with parades or [...] botherations of any kind.
1865		W.W. Knollys Misses and Matrimony 69: Mrs. Fletcher was complaining the other day to aunt about her servants. She said they ‘dicked’ her so. [...] At last, I found out that to ‘dick’ meant in Hindustani to bother.
1877		A. Allardyce ‘The Anglo-Indian Tongue’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. May 549/2: A ‘mufsid’ is a troublesome fellow who annoys the court with complaints of his own, and does his best to foster disputes among his neighbours; and it is socially used of a person who ‘dikks’ or pesters one with petitions, or with his company – the bore of English society.
1885		Kipling in Pinney Kipling’s India (1986) 65: I am the Junior Civilian horribly dikked by the Superior Being, and squabbling with a tactless, factious Municipal Committee.
1899		B. Mitford Ruby Sword 97: ‘We don’t want to be ‘dikked’ by a lot of niggers,’ grunted Bracebrydge, in an audible aside.
1904		B. Mitford Sirdar’s Oath 168: ‘I don’t want to be ‘dikked’ with Raynier’s official affairs. As if I hadn’t enough of my own.
1913		H. Hervey European in India 19: ‘And I tell you what, if you dik (bother) me much more [...] I shall, when I finger the money, come here again and give you a scramble with the coin instead of paying my moonshee!’.