Dyke Definition

dīk
dykes
noun
dykes
Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.
American Heritage

Dike.

Webster's New World
A lesbian, esp. one with physical characteristics traditionally thought of as belonging to men.
Webster's New World

Alternative spelling of dike.

Wiktionary

(Australia, slang) A toilet.

1977, In Cubbaroo's dim distant pastThey built a double dyke.Back to back in the yard it stoodAn architectural dream in wood— Ian Slack-Smith, The Passing of the Twin Seater, from The Cubbaroo Tales, 1977. Quoted in Aussie Humour, Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 235.
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Other Word Forms of Dyke

Noun

Singular:
dyke
Plural:
dykes

Origin of Dyke

  • Attested US 1942, in Berrey and Van den Bark’s American Thesaurus of Slang.

    From Wiktionary

  • Unknown; various theories suggested.

    From Wiktionary

  • Variant of dike.

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Dyke Sentence Examples

  • At Inverell in New South Wales a diamond (1906) has been found embedded in a hornblende diabase which is described as a dyke intersecting the granite.

  • Shields (1825-1904), who afterwards entered the Protestant Episcopal Church, republished and urged the adoption of the Book of Common Prayer as amended by the Westminster Divines in the royal commission of 1661; and Henry Van Dyke was prominent in the latter stage of the movement for a liturgy.

  • Dr. Van Dyke was an eloquent speaker.

  • A dyke called Blemund's Ditch, of unknown origin, bounded it on the south, where the land was marshy.

  • There have been discovered (1907) the remains of this ditch protected by a low wall or a stone dyke; some of the boundary stones which marked its course, and inscriptions mentioning it, have also been found.

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