tyke
/taɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A dialect, also known as Yorkshire, spoken in the county of Yorkshire.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Manipulative little tyke I was."
- "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?"
Etymology
From Middle English 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”.