Deke vs Dyke - What's the difference?
deke | dyke |
(ice hockey) A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or other defender.
(ice hockey) A series of feints, fakes, or other moves made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or other defender.
(Canada, slang) A quick detour.
(Canada) To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
(in hockey) To execute a deke .
(Australia, slang) A toilet.
(UK) A ditch (rarely also refers to similar natural features, and to one natural valley, Devil's Dyke, Sussex, due to a legend that the devil dug it).
(UK, mainly S England) An earthwork consisting of a ditch and a parallel rampart.
(British) An embankment to prevent inundation, or a causeway.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, or a hedge alone, used as a fence.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.
(British, geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.
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As nouns the difference between deke and dyke
is that deke is a feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or other defender while dyke is an alternative spelling of lang=en.As a verb deke
is to avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.deke
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(wikipedia dyke)Etymology 1
Variant of (dike).Noun
(en noun)- 1977 , In Cubbaroo's dim distant past
They built a double dyke.
Back to back in the yard it stood
An architectural dream in wood''
— Ian Slack-Smith, ''The Passing of the Twin Seater'', from ''The Cubbaroo Tales'', 1977. Quoted in ''Aussie Humour , Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 235.