TYKE

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• TYKE (noun)
  The noun TYKE has 3 senses:

1. a native of Yorkshire

2. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

3. a young person of either sex

  Familiarity information: TYKE used as a noun is uncommon.

• TYKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native of Yorkshire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Tyke" is a kind of...):

English person (a native or inhabitant of England)

Sense 2

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 ("tyke" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Sense 3

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 ("tyke" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)

Meronyms (parts of "tyke"):

child's body (the body of a human child)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tyke"):

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)

 Context examples 

“Oh, Lord!” he cried. “’Elp! ’Elp! Tyke ’im aw’y, carn’t yer? Tyke ’im aw’y!”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It’s amazing how a little tyke can bring such happiness to everyone—and continues to do so as we move forward.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

'Tyke care,' says I. 'Bersicker is quick.'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“All right,” he said pridelessly, “tyke it or leave it, I’ll like yer none the less for it.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the cook was after me, shouting through the lee galley door: ’Ere, you! Don’t tyke all night about it! Where’s the pot? Lost overboard?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I’ll run down an’ tyke a look over my kit, if you’ve no objections, sir, to wearin’ my things.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)