c1400 Melayne 1325 Says Charls: ‘þou false hethyn hownde,..aythire of thies dayes Ilyke Hase þou stollen a waye lyke a tyke’.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 236 He barkis lyk an midding tyk.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kiii/2 A Tyke, dogge, canis.

1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 2 At great dogs, the lttle tikes doe snarre.

1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches ii. sig. E Are Mr. Robinsons dogges turn'd tykes with a wanion?

1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs v, in Poems 11 He was a gash an' faithfu' tyke, As ever lap a sheugh or dyke.

1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) II. xxvi. 338 The mad randy gipsy, that had..been hounded like a stray tike from parish to parish.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 89 A drover of sheep should always be provided with a dog,..a knowing cautious tyke.

1861 J. Brown Horæ Subs. ii. 138 Toby was the most utterly shabby, vulgar, mean-looking cur I ever beheld—in one word, a tyke.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 3642 Hewe downe hertly ȝone heythene tykes!

?a1500 Chester Pl. vii. 275 Lyther tyke,..thy deedes are done.

1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiv. 42 For me that Nobill of Renoun With ane Tyke, Tratour Hammiltoun, Was schot.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. i. 29 Base Tyke, cal'st thou mee Hoste? View more context for this quotation

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. iv. 57 in Wks. II Yo'are a dissembling Tyke.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 87 Yet many utterly mislikes, That butcher Presbyterian tykes Should flee upon their throats and faces.

1806 R. Jamieson Gude Wallace in Pop. Ballads (1806) II. 174 Tyke, by the rude thou 'scapes nat sae.

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Tike or Tyke, a person of bad character, a blunt or vulgar fellow.

1894 Daily News 4 Oct. 7/2 Mr. R——..exclaimed, ‘You dirty little tyke’.

1902 Dial. Notes 2 248 Tyke, n., a child.

1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 30 ‘That poor boy,’ Cora says. ‘The poor little tyke.’

1942 H. 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.

1979 Tucson (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.

1981 Verbatim 7 iii. 23/2 What hours of chair~side fun await the tyke supplied with ‘three 6-oz. cans of modeling compound’!

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Yorkshire-Tike, a Yorkshire manner of Man.

a1721 M. Prior Wandering Pilgrim in Misc. Wks. (1740) II. vii Could Yorkshire-Tyke but do the same, Then He like Them might thrive.

1761 Brit. Mag. 2 464 I'se a poor Yorkshire tyke.

1820 Syd. Smith in Life (1884) x. 249 Give a tyke a bridle and he'll soon have a horse.

1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock vi. 92 The tykes, who were very jealous of the honour of their jocks, did not relish their defeat.

1901 C. G. Harper 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.

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 76 Tike, tyke, a Roman Catholic.

1948 R. Park Harp in South xxi. 268 I'll do what I like when I like without the interference of any bone-headed tike.

1961 P. 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.

1977 D. Aitkin Second Chair xviii. 172 Baxter's a tyke (you wouldn't think it from his name..) and he goes to mass each Sunday.

1981 M. 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?’

1905 Westm. Gaz. 18 Dec. 3/1 At Bradford or Sheffield or some other murky stronghold of Tykedom.

1868 E. Yates in All Year Round 12 Dec. 25/2 As the ‘tyke’ grew up she dropped all outward signs of tykeishness.

1888 G. M. Hopkins Further Lett. (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.