tyke
Other forms: tykes
A tyke is a child, especially a small one. A nursery school is full of tykes.
Little kids are a handful, as all parents and teachers know. Maybe that's why there are some slangy words for them, such as rugrat and tyke. Tyke is a very informal word: a letter from the principal wouldn't call a kid a tyke. However, an uncle or friend of the family might say, "How are you tykes doing?" This word is a little old-fashioned, but it's still used.
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a young person of either sextypes:bairna child: son or daughterbustera robust childchangelinga child secretly exchanged for another in infancychild prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child, wunderkinda prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early agekiddya young childorphana child who has lost both parentspeanuta young child who is small for his ageposter childa child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposessillya word used for misbehaving childrensproga childurchina poor and often mischievous city childposter boya male poster childposter girla female poster childguttersnipe, street urchina child who spends most of his time in the streets, especially in slum areastype of:
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a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
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