/huy"dook/ , n.
1. one of a class of mercenary soldiers in 16th-century Hungary.
2. an outlaw who engaged in brigandage and irregular warfare against the Turks in the Slavic regions of the Ottoman Empire.
3. a male servant or attendant dressed in semimilitary Hungarian costume.
Also, Heyduck, Heyduke, Heyduc, Heiduc, Heiduk .
[ hajdúk, pl. of HAJD ]