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TIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tike mean?
• TIKE (noun)
The noun TIKE has 2 senses:
1. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
2. a young person of either sex
Familiarity information: TIKE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
barbarian; boor; churl; Goth; peasant; tike; tyke
Hypernyms ("tike" is a kind of...):
disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A young person of either sex
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster
Context example:
'tiddler' is a British term for youngster
Hypernyms ("tike" is a kind of...):
juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)
Meronyms (parts of "tike"):
child's body (the body of a human child)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tike"):
peanut (a young child who is small for his age)
street child; waif (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned)
urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)
bambino; toddler; tot; yearling (a young child)
sprog (a child)
silly (a word used for misbehaving children)
kindergartener; kindergartner; preschooler (a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten)
poster child (a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes)
picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)
bairn (a child: son or daughter)
orphan (a child who has lost both parents)
kiddie; kiddy (informal term for a young child)
imp; monkey; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; scamp (one who is playfully mischievous)
foster-child; foster child; fosterling (a child who is raised by foster parents)
child prodigy; infant prodigy; wonder child (a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age)
changeling (a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy)
buster (a robust child)
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