dyke¹ Definition
dyke (dīk)
noun, transitive verb
dyke² Definition
dyke (dīk)
noun
Slang a lesbian, esp. one with physical characteristics traditionally thought of as belonging to men: usually a term of contempt and hostility
Etymology: contr. < morphodyke, morphodite, altered < hermaphrodite
dyke² Related Forms
dyk′ey adjective
dyke Usage Examples
Converse of object
- build: In northern Mali, Oxfam has assisted communities in building dikes inside small pastoral lakes.
- follow: Cross the fence and follow this dike, a stone building is clearly seen on its south side.
- have: Like the Community Garden, Adam's has an delightful dry stane dike.
- call: They have built walls of brick and stone called dikes.
Adjective modifier
- drystane: Many readers will be familiar with the superbly built drystane dike on the Bealach Mor, lowest point of the ridge of Suilven.
- Tertiary: The tide got its own back, beating us to the Tertiary basalt dikes that cut the pillow lavas in places.
- butch: Can a butch dike not ask a femme out without a presumption of desire?
- intrusive: Mineralization caused by intrusive Tertiary dikes may also add extra interest.
- defensive: At Butser Hill, south of Petersfield, an Iron Age site reveals three defensive dikes, lynchets, burial mounds and ancient trackways.
- dry: Under the ridge where the tree is growing, are the remains of a dry stane dike.
Modifies a noun
- swarm: The top of its western face is fairly steep with many crags, pinnacles and dike swarms.
- bar: Alternatively you could take your bezzie mate to a good dike bar and see if you can find something to distract her.
- system: The ' park ' dike system is visible as a low wall on the east edge of the school grounds.
- intrusion: Seismic data suggests that most of the dike intrusion in Ethiopia happened in about a week.
Noun used with modifier
- dolerite: Throughout the island group basalt and dolerite dikes have eroded to form caves and tunnels above and below the water.
- drystone: Excess shade from shrubs and trees can affect some mosses and lichens on drystone dikes.
- cross-ridge: Just before it reaches the road, the track crosses the first of the series of cross-ridge dikes.
- stane: Under the ridge where the tree is growing, are the remains of a dry stane dike.
- drystane: Within the context of North East Scotland, the predominant features from this list are burns, drystane dikes and field edges.
- basalt: The tide got its own back, beating us to the Tertiary basalt dikes that cut the pillow lavas in places.
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