Spike

See also: spike

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪk

Proper noun

Spike

1. A male nickname.
   • 1995, Donna E. Norton, Through the eyes of a child: an introduction to children's literature (page 418)

     This book contains mostly humorous animal poems by poets such as Spike Milligan, Theodore Roethke, and Rudyard Kipling.

   • 2013 Zadie Smith, N-W, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 238:

     He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.

Anagrams

• kepis, kipes, pikes

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German

Noun

Spike m

case	singular	plural
nominative	der Spike	die Spikes
genitive	des Spikes	der Spikes
dative	dem Spike	den Spikes
accusative	den Spike	die Spikes

1. spike (nail or something similar to it)

Further reading

• “Spike” in Duden online