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Kyle vs Kyke - What's the difference?

kyle | kyke |

As a proper noun Kyle

is {{surname|habitational|from=Scottish Gaelic}.

As a noun kyle

is in Scotland A narrow channel between islands.

As a verb kyke is

to look steadfastly; to gaze.

kyle

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , transferred from the surname.
  • * 2005 Joyce Carol Oates: Missing Mom . Ecco 2005. ISBN 006081621X page 110:
    • Wally Szalla was the least discomforting of men, nothing like the pushy arrogant guys I was always meeting, or who were always meeting me. Guys with names like Dale, Brock, Kevin, Kyle . Guys with names nothing like Wally.
  • (label) , transferred from the surname
  • A town in Saskatchewan
  • A CDP in South Dakota
  • A city in Texas

    • Anagrams

    * English surnames from Irish

    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)