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▪ I. tyke Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.|taɪk|
Also 6 tyk, 6–9 tike.
[a. ON. tík female dog, bitch (Norw. tik, also she-fox, vixen, Sw. dial. tik, older Da. tig); also MLG. tike bitch.]
1. A dog; usually in depreciation or contempt, a low-bred or coarse dog, a cur, a mongrel.
c1400Melayne 1325 Says Charls: ‘þou false hethyn hownde,..aythire of thies dayes Ilyke Hase þou stollen a waye lyke a tyke’. 1500–20Dunbar Of James Dog 14 Poems (S.T.S.) 195 He barkis lyk ane midding tyk. 1570Levins Manip. 122/25 A Tyke, dogge, canis. 1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 182 At great dogs the lttle tikes doe snarre. 1634Heywood Lanc. Witches ii. Wks. 1874 IV. 199 Are Mr. Robinsons dogges turn'd tykes with a wanion? 1786Burns Twa Dogs 29 He was a gash an' faithfu' tyke, As ever lap a sheugh or dike. 1815Scott Guy M. lv, The mad randy gipsy, that had..been hounded like a stray tike from parish to parish. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 89 A drover of sheep should always be provided with a dog,..a knowing cautious tyke. 1861J. Brown Horæ Subs. ii. 138 Toby was the most utterly shabby, vulgar, mean-looking cur I ever beheld—in one word, a tyke.
2. transf. Applied opprobriously to a man (rarely with similar force to a woman): A low-bred, lazy, mean, surly, or ill-mannered fellow; a boor. (Cf. dog n.1 3 a, hound n.1 4 a.) Also said in playful reproof to a child; hence (unreprovingly), a child, esp. a small boy; occas., a young animal (U.S.).
a1400Morte Arth. 3642 Hewe downe hertly ȝone heythene tykes! a1500Chester Pl. vii. 275 Lyther tyke,..thy deedes are done. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. xiv. 42 For me that Nobill of Renoun With ane Tyke, Tratour Hammiltoun, Was schot. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. i. 31 Base Tyke, cal'st thou mee Hoste? 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. v. iv. 57 Yo'are a dissembling Tyke. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 87 Yet many utterly mislikes, That butcher Presbyterian tykes Should flee upon their throats and faces. 1806Jamieson Gude Wallace in Ball. & Songs (1806) II. 174 Tyke, by the rude thou 'scapes nat sae. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Tike or Tyke, a person of bad character, a blunt or vulgar fellow. 1868[see tykishness below]. 1894Daily News 4 Oct. 7/2 Mr. R―..exclaimed, ‘You dirty little tyke’. 1902Dialect Notes II. 248 Tyke, n., a child. 1930W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 30 ‘That poor boy,’ Cora says. ‘The poor little tyke.’ 1942H. K. Smith Last Train from Berlin v. 174 If you think the present Gestapo is brutal, just wait until these little tykes..grow up and become the rulers of Victorious Germany. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 1 e/4 The stripes are nature's way of protecting the tapir tyke until it's old enough to fend for itself. 1981Verbatim VII. iii. 23/2 What hours of chair⁓side fun await the tyke supplied with ‘three 6-oz. cans of modeling compound’!
3. A nickname for a Yorkshireman: in full Yorkshire tyke.
(Perhaps originally opprobrious; but now accepted and owned. It may have arisen from the fact that in Yorkshire tyke is in common use for dog.)
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew., Yorkshire-Tike, a Yorkshire manner of Man. a1714Prior Wandering Pilgrim vii, Could Yorkshire-Tyke but do the same, Then He like Them might thrive. 1761British Mag. II. 464 I'se a poor Yorkshire tyke. 1820Syd. Smith in Life x. (1884) 249 Give a tyke a bridle and he'll soon have a horse. 1856[H. H. Dixon] Post & Paddock vi. 92 The tykes, who were very jealous of the honour of their jocks, did not relish their defeat. 1901Harper Great North Road I. 268 By common consent, whatever its origin may have been, ‘tyke’, applied to a Yorkshireman, is taken in the complimentary sense.
4. [Assimilated or altered f. Teague.] A Roman Catholic. Austral. and N.Z. slang.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 76 Tike, tyke, a Roman Catholic. 1948R. Park Harp in South xxi. 268 I'll do what I like when I like without the interference of any bone-headed tike. 1961P. White Riders in Chariot viii. 232, I would never ever of suspected you Rosetrees of being tykes. Only the civil servants are Roman Catholics here, and the politicians, if they are anything at all. 1977D. Aitkin Second Chair xviii. 172 Baxter's a tyke (you wouldn't think it from his name..) and he goes to mass each Sunday. 1981M. Gee Meg xvii. 189 Once it fell to me to..explain to a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses that we were all good Catholics in this house... ‘At least the tikes have got some style... Shall I nail a crucifix on the door?’
5. attrib. and Comb., as tyke dog, tyke-man, tyke-sticker.
a1585Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 787 Tyk stickar, poysond viccar, pot lickar! 1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 283 A provincial touch..between Bob Luckman, a tyke-man, and John Bouck, a rat-trap. 1895Crockett Men of Moss-Hags xxxiv, A great debate concerning this tyke dog.
Hence (nonce-wds.) ˈtykedom, the realm or community of tykes; humorously, Yorkshire (see 3); ˈtykish a., characteristic of a tyke; ˈtykishness, the character of a tyke.
1868E. Yates Wrecked in Port iii, As the ‘tyke’ grew up she dropped all outward signs of tykeishness. 1888G. M. Hopkins Let. 20 May (1956) 392 There is an old Adam of barbarism, boyishness, wildness, rawness, rankness, the disreputable, the unrefined in the refined and educated. It is that I meant by tykishness (a tyke is a stray sly unowned dog)... Ancient Pistol is the typical tyke,..and the tykish element undergoing dilution in Falstaff and Prince Hall [sic] appears to vanish..in Henry V as king. 1905Westm. Gaz. 18 Dec. 3/1 At Bradford or Sheffield or some other murky stronghold of Tykedom.
▪ II. tyke
see tike1; obs. f. tick n.1 and n.2 |