different between tyke vs pyke

English

Alternative forms

• tike

Etymology

From Middle English tike, tyke, from Old Norse tík (“bitch”). Compare modern Icelandic tík (“bitch, female dog”), Faroese tík (“bitch, female dog”), Swedish tik (“bitch, female dog”). For sense 5, early 20th century: alteration of Taig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Noun

tyke (plural tykes)

1. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
2. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one
   1. (Canada) An initiation level of sports competition for young children (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Him, ch 5:

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

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• Tyke

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• Kyte, kyte, tyek

English

Verb

pyke (third-person singular simple present pykes, present participle pyking, simple past and past participle pyked)

1. Obsolete form of peek.
2. Obsolete form of pick.

Noun

pyke (plural pykes)

1. Obsolete form of pike.

Anagrams

• kype

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English p?c, from Proto-West Germanic *p?k, from Proto-Germanic *p?kaz.

Alternative forms

• pike, pik, pyk, pikke, pykke, peke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?k/, /pik/

Noun

pyke (plural pykes)

1. A sharp round point or projection.
2. A point or end of something in general; especially the end of a shoe.
3. A pike; a piercing weapon with a spike affixed.
4. A pickaxe; an axe with a chisel edge on one side.
5. A number of other tools noted for their pointiness.
6. A barb or talon of an animal or a plant.
7. A pike (fish with a barbed mouth (Esox lucius))
8. (rare) A peak; a hill.

Related terms

• pikerel
• piken

Descendants

• English: pike, peak; pick (in part)
• Scots: pike, pick
• Yola: pick

References

• “p??k(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.
• “p??k(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.

Etymology 2

From Old English *piccian.

Verb

pyke

1. Alternative form of piken