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Definitions

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. dialectal A mongrel dog.
  2. n. slang A small 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. From Old Norse tík ‘bitch’ ( > Norwegian tik). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, mongrel, from Old Norse tīk, bitch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. child
  1. tot
  1. girl
  1. boy

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. unpleasant person
  1. disagreeable person
  1. english person

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. shaver
  2. brother
  3. vord
  4. foot
  1. jack-of-all-trades
  2. fairtrade
  3. ink-bottle
  4. blace
  1. story'
  2. bitty
  3. guy'
  4. bai
  1. cedarwood
  2. chorus-girl
  3. hand'
  4. girl
  1. snip
  2. alizee
  3. cherry-wood
  4. moujik
  1. bugger
  2. spare-room

rhymes (28)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Dike
  2. Ike
  3. Mike
  4. Pike
  5. Reich
  1. Spike
  2. Vandyke
  3. alike
  4. bike
  5. dike
  1. dislike
  2. dyke
  3. fike
  4. fyke
  5. hike
  1. like
  2. lyke
  3. mike
  4. pike
  5. psych
  1. rike
  2. spike
  3. strike
  4. tike
  5. unlike
  1. vandyke
  2. wike
  3. wyke

reverse dictionary (1)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. tike

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

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