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語源

From 中期英語 tike, tyke, from Old Norse tík (“female dog”), from Proto-Germanic *tīkō. Compare Icelandic tík, Faroese tík, and Swedish tik, all meaning “bitch, female dog”.
Sense 5 (“Roman Catholic”) is an alteration of taig, and was first used in writing in the early 20 century.

発音

• IPA: /taɪk/
• 韻: -aɪk

名詞

tyke (plural tykes)

1. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. 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.

2. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
   1. (Canada) Designating an initiation level of sports competition for young children. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (dated, chiefly British) An uncultured, crude and unrefined or uncouth ill-bred person.
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 5, in Lord Jim:

     Why, the inquiry thing, the yellow-dog thing—you wouldn’t think a mangy, native tyke would be allowed to trip up people in the verandah of a magistrate’s court, would you?

4. (UK, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
5. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.

同意語

• (mongrel dog): mongrel, mutt
• (slang: small child): ankle-biter, nipper, tot

派生語

関連する語

• Tyke

参照

“tyke”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

アナグラム

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