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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small child, especially a boy.
  2. n. A mongrel or cur.
  3. n. Chiefly British A man considered uncouth or mean; a boor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See tike.
  2. n. Au obsolete form of ti ck.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A mongrel dog.
  2. n. A child, especially a boy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See 2d tike.
  2. n. a small child.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
  2. n. a young person of either sex
  3. n. a native of Yorkshire

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, mongrel, from Old Norse tīk, bitch.

Examples

  • “If your tyke is still too young for those, try these adorable hat & booties sets.”

    Olivia Chen | Inhabitat

  • “Just found out that my favorite fantasy series when I was a tyke is coming to the big American screen, and Ian McShane plays Merriman Lyon!”

    SeeLight:

  • “This adorable little tyke is the newest addition to the scrubbles store.”

    New in the Store: Cute Baby Stuff : Scrubbles.net

  • “My tyke is my teacher and he delivers these lessons for me to learn night or day; at home or even on vacation.”

    The Partial Observer

  • “My tyke is my teacher, even during stressful times and situations.”

    The Partial Observer

  • tyke" of a doggie -- a biography which had so lived in my recollection that when a queer little fluffy dumpling of a puppy was given me I could not help giving it the old familiar name, little knowing how aptly true the name would prove to be in after years.”

    Wild Nature Won By Kindness

  • “Yesterday, for instance, we recognized a little tyke of 42.”

    Ss Petri & Pauli

  • “I know that as a very little tyke (I * think* pre-school), I remember interrupting a meal with sobbing.”

    Flush | Her Bad Mother

  • “In a wildly unconvincing reversal, Dexter talks Travis into releasing the adorable tyke and putting him on an elevator ?”

    Roush Review: Homeland, Dexter Finales

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  • brtom "Who owns the bleeding tyke?" Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Jan 1, 2008

‘tyke’ has been looked up 1112 times, added to 11 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 11.