# tyke

> English word · Noun · IPA /taɪk/ · frequency rank #80,071

## Definitions
1. A mongrel dog.
2. A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
3. A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
4. An uncultured, crude and unrefined or uncouth ill-bred person.
5. A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.

## Etymology
From Middle English tike, tyke, from Old Norse tík (“female dog”), from Proto-Germanic *tīkō. Compare Icelandic tík, Faroese tík, and Swedish tik, all meaning “bitch, female dog”.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tyke