TYKE

Pronunciation (US):

• 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)

Meaning:

A native of Yorkshire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

English person (a native or inhabitant of England)

Meaning:

A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

boor; churl; Goth; tike; barbarian; tyke; peasant

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

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

Meaning:

A young person of either sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

child; tiddler; nipper; minor; kid; youngster; nestling; shaver; small fry; tike; tyke; fry

Context examples:

she writes books for children / they're just kids / 'tiddler' is a British term for youngsters

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

juvenile; juvenile person (a youthful person)

Meronyms (parts of "tyke"):

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

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

bairn (a child: son or daughter)

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 ((offensive) a Black child)

peanut (a young child who is small for his age)

orphan (a child who has lost both parents)

kiddy (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)

street child; waif (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned)