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Dyke vs Sike - What's the difference?

dyke | sike |

As nouns the difference between dyke and sike

is that dyke is an alternative spelling of lang=en while sike is a gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.

As a verb sike is

to sigh or sob.

As an interjection sike is

indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psyched out") one's interlocutor.

dyke

English

(wikipedia dyke)

Etymology 1

Variant of (dike).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, slang) A toilet.
    • 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.
  • (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.

    • Etymology 2

    ; various theories suggested. Attested US 1942, in Berrey and Van den Bark’s American Thesaurus of Slang''."dike, dyke, n.3" ''The Oxford English Dictionary . 2nd ed. 1989. OED Online. Oxford UP. 4 Apr. 2000 .
    Synonyms
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    Derived terms
    * bulldyke

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    sike

    English

    Alternative forms

    * syke

    Etymology 1

    From the northern form of (etyl) (see (sitch)), from (etyl). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.
    • The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. bedoven in dank deep was every sike . — A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512

    Etymology 2

    Variant of (siche).

    Verb

  • (archaic) To sigh or sob.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A sigh.

    • Etymology 3

    Variant of (psych).

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled ("psyched out") one's interlocutor.

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