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tike

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Word definitions for tike in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant , barbarian , boor , churl , Goth , tyke ] a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters" [syn: ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of tyke nodot=yes English) (mongrel dog) 2 A boorish person. 3 (archaic form of tick nodot=yes English) (a kind of arthropod)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tike \Tike\, n. [Icel. t[=i]k a bitch; akin to Sw. tik.] A dog; a cur. ``Bobtail tike or trundle-tail.'' --Shak. A countryman or clown; a boorish, clumsy, or eccentric person; -- also spelled tyke . a small child; -- variant of tyke .

Usage examples of tike.

Against the bullying and bedevilled tike, we can set the adolescent dreamer, the boy who tenderly nursed his apocalyptic hopes.

The Maja made a gesture with her hands, tike something bowing under the strain.

The one on the highest level had a small wooden deck jutting out over part of the rockery, and the lowest level residence had a ground-hugging porch, whose slender doweled pillars looked nearly too fragile to support the floor of tike third, mid-level apartment above it.

Being at the training center in Peoria was Tike being born again, somehow, and I guess being born always hurts.

It sound tike a go th, n ad mitt to himlf, butte had absolutely no proof.

His wife rushed out, saw the lyre, Jooked at me and shrieked tike a demon.

You were the lonesomest, chilliest, most forlorn little tike I ever saw.

The rest of Africa, tike South America, was largely noncommunicating, from which Biti assumed that those areas had been pretty well depopulated by the time storm also.

And as the only real representative of the people in question, I have to tell you that they won't tike me idea of someone throwing his life away in their name.

When he was done, he looked tike an officer in the ski troops, lacking only the skis.

Players ring changes on each othermore tike a steppin'out jazz band than a solo concert in a plush auditorium.

The floors and the central support column containing the elevator and utility conduits looked tike the remains of a fish after filleting.

Sie starrte wie hypnotisiert den Zeiger an und wartete angespannt darauf, daß das gleichmäßige Ticken durch den Klick übertönt wurde.

Nobody tikes to be reminded mat he will inevitably grow too old to perform his specialty.

Nothin' don't count only wot tikes plice during the two weeks of the 'ouse-party,' 'e says.