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dyke

1  [dahyk]
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–noun, verb, dyked, dyk⋅ing.
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dyke

2  [dahyk]
–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

dike

1  [dahyk] noun, verb, diked, dik⋅ing.
–noun
1. an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river: They built a temporary dike of sandbags to keep the river from flooding the town.
2. a ditch.
3. a bank of earth formed of material being excavated.
4. a causeway.
5. British Dialect. a low wall or fence, esp. of earth or stone, for dividing or enclosing land.
6. an obstacle; barrier.
7. Geology.
a. a long, narrow, cross-cutting mass of igneous rock intruded into a fissure in older rock.
b. a similar mass of rock composed of other kinds of material, as sandstone.
8. Chiefly Australian Slang. a urinal.
–verb (used with object)
9. to furnish or drain with a dike.
10. to enclose, restrain, or protect by a dike: to dike a tract of land.
Also, dyke.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME dik(e), OE dīc < ON dīki; akin to ditch

Related forms:
diker, noun
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dike 1 also dyke   (dīk)   
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.
dyke 1   (dīk)   
n.   & v.
Variant of dike1.
dyke 2   (dīk)   
n.   Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.

[Origin unknown.]
dyke'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
dike

and dyke
  1. n.
    a lesbian; a bulldiker.(Rude and derogatory.) : Who's the dike in the cowboy boots?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

dike 
O.E. dic "trench, ditch," from P.Gmc. *dik- (cf. O.N. diki, Du. dijk, Ger. Deich), from PIE base *dheigw- "to pierce, fasten" (cf. Skt. dehi- "wall," O.Pers. dida "wall, stronghold, fortress," Pers. diz). At first "an excavation," later (1487) applied to the resulting earth mound; a sense development paralleled by cognate forms in many other languages. This is the northern variant of the word, which in the south of England yielded ditch.

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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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