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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024dyke1 /daɪk/USA pronunciation n. - dike1.
dyke2 or dike /daɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable][Slang (disparaging and offensive).]- Sex and Gender, Slang Termsa female homosexual;
lesbian.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dyke1 (dīk),USA pronunciation n., v., dyked, dyk•ing. - dike1.
dyke2 (dīk),USA pronunciation n. [Slang (disparaging and offensive).]- Sex and Gender, Slang Termsa female homosexual;
lesbian.
Also, dike. - 1940–45; earlier in form bulldike (with a variant bulldagger); of obscure origin, originally; claimed to be a shortening of morphodyke (variant of morphodite, a reshaping of hermaphrodite), though morphodyke is more likely a blend of, blended morphodite and a pre-existing dyke; other hypothesized connections, such as with diked out or dike "ditch,'' are dubious on semantic grounds
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: dyke, dike /daɪk/ n - an embankment constructed to prevent flooding, keep out the sea, etc
- a ditch or watercourse
- a bank made of earth excavated for and placed alongside a ditch
- Scot a wall, esp a dry-stone wall
- a barrier or obstruction
- a vertical or near-vertical wall-like body of igneous rock intruded into cracks in older rock
- Austral NZ informal a lavatory
- (as modifier): a dyke roll
vb - (transitive) to protect, enclose, or drain (land) with a dyke
Etymology: 13th Century: modification of Old English dic ditch; compare Old Norse dīki ditch dyke, dike /daɪk/ n - slang a lesbian
Etymology: 20th Century: of unknown origin dike1 or dyke /daɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a thick wall or embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river.
- Civil Engineeringditch.
dike2 /daɪk/USA pronunciation n. - dyke2.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dike1 (dīk),USA pronunciation n., v., diked, dik•ing. n. - Civil Engineeringan embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river:They built a temporary dike of sandbags to keep the river from flooding the town.
- Civil Engineeringa ditch.
- Civil Engineeringa bank of earth formed of material being excavated.
- Civil Engineeringa causeway.
- British Termsa low wall or fence, esp. of earth or stone, for dividing or enclosing land.
- an obstacle;
barrier. - Geology
- a long, narrow, cross-cutting mass of igneous rock intruded into a fissure in older rock.
- a similar mass of rock composed of other kinds of material, as sandstone.
- British Terms[Chiefly Australian Slang.]a urinal.
v.t. - Civil Engineeringto furnish or drain with a dike.
- Civil Engineeringto enclose, restrain, or protect by a dike:to dike a tract of land.
Also, dyke. - Old Norse dīki; akin to ditch
- Middle English dik(e), Old English dīc bef. 900
- Sex and Genderdyke2.
dike′y, adj. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Dyke /dɑɪk/ n - Greg(ory). born 1947, British television executive; director-general of the BBC (2000–04)
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