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Kyke vs Kype - What's the difference?

kyke | kype |

As a verb kyke

is (obsolete) to look steadfastly; to gaze.

As a noun kype is

the hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn.

kyke

English

Alternative forms

* keke * kike

Verb

(kyk)
  • (obsolete) To look steadfastly; to gaze.
    • This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright, / As he had kyked on the newe moon. — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913)

    kype

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn.

    • See also

    *Oncorhynchus , a genus named for the kype.

    References

    * kype, Collins English Dictionary * kype, Oxford English Dictionary