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You can make 11 words from dyke according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dyke

dyke ydke dkye kdye ykde kyde dyek ydek deyk edyk yedk eydk dkey kdey deky edky kedy ekdy yked kyed yekd eykd keyd ekyd

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dyke. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dyke.

Definitions and meaning of dyke

dyke

Alternative forms

• dike (standard US spelling)

Etymology 1

A variant of dike, from Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German dīk (“dam”). See also ditch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪk/
• Rhymes: -aɪk

Noun

dyke (plural dykes) (British spelling)

1. (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
2. A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
3. (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
4. (dialect) Any watercourse.
5. (dialect) Any small body of water.
6. (obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
7. (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
8. An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
9. A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
10. (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
11. (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
12. An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
13. (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
14. A beaver's dam.
15. (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
16. A raised causeway.
17. (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
18. (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.

Synonyms

• (long, narrow excavation): ditch, trench, fosse
• (small body of water): puddle, pond, pool, lakelet, mere
• (any hollow): den, cave, hole, pit
• (any embankment): bank, embankment, earthwork
• (barrier of stone or earth): bank, embankment, dam, levee, breakwater, floodwall, seawall

Derived terms

Related terms

• ditch
• dig

Translations

Verb

dyke (third-person singular simple present dykes, present participle dyking, simple past and past participle dyked)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
2. (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
3. (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
4. (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
5. (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
6. (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Attested since the 1940s (in Berrey and Van den Bark’s 1942 American Thesaurus of Slang) or 30s. Semantic development from dyke (“ditch”) has been proposed, and some sources from the 1890s are said to record dyke as slang for "vulva" and hedge of the dyke as slang for "pubic hair", but Green's Dictionary of Slang says this is not found in connection to lesbianism and Dictionary.com considers a connection unlikely.

Bull dyke / bulldike is attested earlier, in reference to women since at least the 1920s (the 29 July 1892 Decatur Daily Review in Illinois mentions a woman who "won the affections of Harvey Neal, alias 'Bulldyke'", whose gender is unclear); compare dike (“noun: well-dressed man; verb: be well dressed”)), bulldyker, and bulldyking, which are all attested earlier than bare dyke, e.g. in Parke's 1906 Human Sexuality, in the speech of Philadelphians, and backcountry Black Americans. Compare bulldagger, attested since around the same time and used especially by Black women.

Other linguists suggested that bull dyke(r) referred to strong Black women who dug dikes, or derived from bull + dick, perhaps in reference to Black men. It has also been suggested dyke is a shortening of morphodyke, from morphodite, from hermaphrodite, but the derivation may go in the other direction instead, with morphodyke being a blend of morphodite with the already-extant word dyke.

Noun

dyke (plural dykes)

1. (slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
2. (slang, usually derogatory, loosely, offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.

Usage notes

This term for a lesbian is often derogatory (or taken as such) when used by straight people but is also used by some lesbians to refer to themselves positively. See reclaimed word and reappropriation for discussion.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:female homosexual

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Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, "dike | dyke, n.¹" & "dike | dyke, v.¹".

Anagrams

• E.D. Ky.

Scots

Etymology

From Old English dīc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəik/

Noun

dyke (plural dykes)

1. A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.
2. A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
3. A hedge