tyke
tyke
Definition
tyke (tīk)
noun
- Informal a small child
- Brit.
- a dog, esp. a mongrel
- 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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