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Tike vs Sike - What's the difference?

tike | sike |

As nouns the difference between tike and sike

is that tike is an alternative spelling of nodot=yes lang=en (mongrel dog 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.

tike

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mongrel dog)
  • * Shakespeare
    • Bobtail tike or trundle-tail.
  • A boorish person.
  • (a kind of arthropod)

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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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