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tyke
noun- a child, especially one who is disobedient, impudent or mischievous; a youth UK
Since about 1400. Probably from the sense as “a dog”. - The fat copper got real mean then, he stared at Henry as if he wanted to tear his head off, and said, “You dirty lying little tyke. If you say that in court tomorrow, I’ll fix you for good.” — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 9, 1964
- Get up you lazy fucking tyke, and get to school! — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 137, 1999
- Meantime we left the little tyke I had nabbed at the station[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 63, 2002
- a Yorkshireman UK
Since about 1700. Originally pejorative, ultimately from the sense as “a dog”; now in general use, and adopted with pride by Yorkshire people: Barnsley football club is nicknamed “The Tykes”. - Tyke first, English Second, happy to be a Euro citizen — www.yorkshiresoul.org, 25 February 2005
- a rough, ill-mannered fellow UK: NORTHERN IRELAND
- [Mainly Scots and Northern English, from Old Norse tik “a female dog, a bitch”] — Dr. C. I. Macafee, A Concise Ulster Dictionary, p. 369, 1996
- a Roman Catholic AUSTRALIA, 1902
Probably Northern Ireland English Taig. - — Lance Corporal Cobber, The Anzac Pilgrim’s Progress, p. 81, 1915
- Little red-headed Tyke got him. — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 84, 1969
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 92, 1977
- See the tykes, of which I’m one I don’t mind telling you, they know that of the two main evils – drinking and fornicating – the latter’s the worst. — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 126, 1979
- — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 56, 1987
- a scruffy dog; a mongrel UK
Now widely used as a pet name.
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