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dyke1    Audio Help   [dahyk] Pronunciation Key
–noun, verb, dyked, dyk·ing.
dike1.
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dyke2    Audio Help   [dahyk] Pronunciation Key
–noun Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
a female homosexual; lesbian.
Also, dike.

[Origin: 1940–45; earlier in form bulldike (with a var. bulldagger); of obscure orig.; claimed to be a shortening of morphodyke (var. of morphodite, a reshaping of hermaphrodite), though morphodyke is more likely a b. morphodite and a pre-existing dyke; other hypothesized connections, such as with diked out or dike “ditch,” are dubious on semantic grounds]

—Related forms
dykey, adjective
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dike 1 also dyke    Audio Help   (dīk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods.
    2. Chiefly British A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.
  2. A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection.
  3. A raised causeway.
  4. A ditch; a channel.
  5. Geology A long mass of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rock.

tr.v.   diked also dyked, dik·ing also dyk·ing, dikes also dykes
  1. To protect, enclose, or provide with a dike.
  2. To drain with dikes or ditches.


[Middle English, from Old English dīc, trench; see dhīgw- in Indo-European roots, and from Old Norse dīki, ditch.]

dik'er n.
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dyke 1    Audio Help   (dīk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   & v.
Variant of dike1.

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dyke 2    Audio Help   (dīk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.


[Origin unknown.]

dyke'y adj.
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dyke 
1931, Amer.Eng., probably shortening of morphadike, dialectal garbling of hermaphrodite, but bulldyker "engage in lesbian activities" is attested from 1921, and a source from 1896 lists dyke as slang for "the vulva."

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dyke

noun
1. (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine [syn: butch] 
2. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [syn: dam] 

verb
1. enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water" [syn: dike] 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
dyke, dike [daik] noun
an embankment built as a barrier against the sea etc
Arabic: سَد، حاجِز
Chinese (Simplified): 沟，堤坝
Chinese (Traditional): 溝，堤壩
Czech: hráz
Danish: dige; dæmning
Dutch: dijk
Estonian: tamm, kaldavall
Finnish: pato
French: digue
German: der Deich
Greek: ανάχωμα
Hungarian: védőgát
Icelandic: flóðgarður, stíflugarður
Indonesian: tanggul
Italian: diga
Japanese: 堤防
Latvian: dambis; aizsprosts
Lithuanian: pylimas
Norwegian: dike, demning
Polish: tama, zapora
Portuguese (Brazil): dique
Portuguese (Portugal): dique
Russian: дамба; плотина
Slovak: hrádza
Slovenian: nasip
Spanish: dique
Swedish: vall
Turkish: set, bent
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Dyke

Dyke\, n. See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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