| 单词 | yorkshire tyke |
| 释义 | > as lemmasYorkshire tyke 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. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > north of England > Yorkshire Yorkshireman1549 Yorker1599 wolder1765 woldsman1765 Yorkie1818 tyke1820 bite1883 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. Yorkshire tyke Yorkshire tyke n. (tyke n. 3). < as lemmas |
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