tike

• IPA^(key): /taɪk/

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tike (plural tikes)

1. Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog)
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Bobtaile tike, or trundletaile, Tom will make them weep & waile,

2. Alternative spelling of tyke (Yorkshireman)
3. A boorish person.
4. Archaic form of tick (type of arthropod).

• Kite, kite

Cognate with Ternate tike.

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ke/

tike

1. (transitive) to seek, look for

   'una wotike 'o babaasana ― he looked for a cudgel

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Cognate with Tabaru tike.

• IPA^(key):

tike

1. (transitive) to seek, look for

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Ottoman Turkish تیكه (tike, “piece”), from Proto-Turkic *tikü (“piece”). Cognate with Karakhanid تِكُو (tikǖ, “piece, slice”).

tike (definite accusative tikeyi, plural tikeler)

1. (dialectal, Adana, Osmaniye) piece; especially meat cut in pieces