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tyke Definition

tyke (tīk)

noun

  1. Informal a small child
  2. Brit.
    1. a dog, esp. a mongrel
    2. Dialectal a boor

Etymology: ME tike < ON tik, a bitch < IE base *digh-, goat > OE ticcen, a kid

tyke Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • little: Anyway, Rooney, you should still be at school, little tyke.
  • young: The young tykes who wrote it will get tuppence in royalties, which just might go toward paying their Prozac bills.
  • tricky: The one from the tricky tykes that is in the dog world newspaper looks just like him.

Modifies a noun

  • frame/slide: BB is very good now at that little tykes cube frame/slide.
  • cube: BB is very good now at that little tykes cube frame/slide.

Noun used with modifier

  • indie: This is a band that can do the straight forward heartbreaker song as well as they next load of soppy indie tykes.

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