Tyke

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late Middle English (tyke (sense 2, sense 3)): from Old Norse tík ‘bitch’.


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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.


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tyke (n.)

late 14c., "cur, mongrel," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse tik "bitch," from Proto-Germanic *tikk- (source also of Middle Low German tike). Also applied in Middle English to a low-bred or lazy man. The meaning "child" is from 1902, though the word was used in playful reproof from 1894. As a nickname for a Yorkshireman, from c. 1700; "Perhaps originally opprobrious; but now accepted and owned" [OED].