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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tyke
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was a ghastly little tyke, but it is quite awful that he's dead.
▪ I had a party as a tyke.
▪ I put the phone down on the greedy little tyke.
▪ Oh, dear, poor little tyke.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
tyke

Tike \Tike\, n. [Icel. t[=i]k a bitch; akin to Sw. tik.]

  1. A dog; a cur. ``Bobtail tike or trundle-tail.''
    --Shak.

  2. A countryman or clown; a boorish, clumsy, or eccentric person; -- also spelled tyke.

  3. a small child; -- variant of tyke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tyke

late 14c., "cur, mongrel," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse tik "bitch," from Proto-Germanic *tikk- (cognates: Middle Low German tike). Also applied in Middle English to a low-bred or lazy man. The meaning "child" is from 1902, though the word was used in playful reproof from 1894. As a nickname for a Yorkshireman, from c.1700; "Perhaps originally opprobrious; but now accepted and owned" [OED].

Wiktionary
tyke

n. 1 (context dialectal English) A mongrel dog. 2 (context slang English) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one 3 # (context Canadian English) An initiation level of sports competition for young children 4 (context dated chiefly British English) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement 5 (context UK informal English) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman 6 (context Australian NZ informal derogatory English) A Roman Catholic

WordNet
tyke
  1. n. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tike]

  2. a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, fry, nestling]

Wikipedia
Tyke

Tyke may refer to:

  • Tyke (character), an MGM cartoon character
  • Tyke, a name given to people from Yorkshire, and Tyke (dialect), the varieties of English used in the Northern England historic county of Yorkshire
  • Tyke, a Roman Catholic - Australian slang
  • Tyke (dog), a dog whose ancestry is generally unknown and that has characteristics of two or more types of breeds
  • Tyke (elephant), a female circus elephant
  • Tyke (given name), an American masculine given name
  • Tyke (pigeon), a Second World War homing pigeon who was awarded the Dickin Medal for gallantry in 1943.
  • Tyke (DJ), a British drum and bass producer and DJ.
  • Tyke (Human Child), A term used for a small child i.e. "The little tyke is down for his nap right now"
Tyke (elephant)

Tyke (1974 – August 20, 1994) was an African elephant who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii. On August 20, 1994, during a performance at the Neal Blaisdell Center, she killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and injured her groomer, Dallas Beckwith. Tyke then bolted from the arena and ran through the streets of the Kakaako central business district for more than thirty minutes. Police fired 86 shots at the animal, who eventually collapsed from the wounds and died. While the majority of the attack in the arena was recorded on consumer videotape by several spectators, additional, professional video footage captured the attack on local publicist Steve Hirano and the shooting of Tyke herself (both of which took place outside of the building).

Tyke (given name)

Tyke is an American masculine given name, and may refer to:

  • Tyke Peacock (born 1961), American high jumper
  • Tyke Tolbert (21st century), American football coach
Tyke (pigeon)

Tyke, also known as 'George' and carrying the service number 1263 MEPS 43, was a male Second World War homing pigeon who was awarded the Dickin Medal for gallantry in 1943 for delivering a message from a downed aircrew. His medal was sold for £4,830 ($7,313) in July 2000.

Usage examples of "tyke".

But these boys, they was already clever little tykes well known around town before ever the slave that cachet belongs to was born.

Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.

And although I hate the Disneyesque clich of making every child a motherless tyke, I must admit that the clich works here.

I only knew the tyke by the depth of his chest, the roundness of his foot, and his manner of baying, for the poor gazehound was painted like any Venetian courtesan.

At burglaries, auto thefts, shopliftingswhat the heck, unpack those strollers and give the little tykes a thrill!

He handed off the tyke to his wife the boy still crying in that soft way, big tears just rolling down his cheeks, and I'll be damned if Big Sister wasn't starting to dribble a little bit right along with him.

The tyke tapped the aerial photographs of the China Pit we kept tacked on the bulletin board, one after the other.

The tyke didn't kick or have a tantrum, but his eyes never left those photos on the bulletin board.

Naow, I'll styke my reputption on somethin', you tyke it dahn word for word.

They offer everything from make-your-ownbullet classes to afterschool activities for the tykes.

Tykes still carrying laundry baskets stumbled down stairs and into the street.