Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Anglo-Ind.) trouble, worry.

1873		W. Heeley in Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) 245/1: And Beaufort learned in the law, / And Atkinson the Sage, / And if his looks are white as snow, / ’Tis more from dikk than age!
1888		Kipling ‘Tod’s Amendment’ Plain Tales from Hills (1889) 196: ‘But what profit is there in five years and fresh papers? Nothing but dikh, trouble, dikh’.
1891		Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 5 Sept. 1/4: The presence of an ayah [...] and the worry and dikh she would give would be about enough to mar the pleasure of the trip.
1896		Fred. J. Fraser ‘Little Number Three’ in Belgravia (London) Dec. 393: ‘Thank my stars we are going back to civilization the day after to-morrow. There’s no sport to be got in India nowadays, without the devil’s own dick about it’.