fykes

She is a capital servant, that Jessie; and pleases Mr. Carlyle supremely, attending to all his little 'fykes and manoeuvres' (as she calls it in her private mind) with a zeal and punctuality that leaves him nothing to wish.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

And faith mine _will_ not endure to be loadent wi 'ither fowks fykes

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

My lord'll behove to tak 'his orders aff his young leddy ance he's married on her, may be a whilie afore, but that's no to bind ither folk, an' it's no to be thought that at my years I'm to be puttin 'up wi' a 'ther new fangled English fykes an' nonsense maggots.

Clever Woman of the Family Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862