kyke

English

Alternative forms

• keke
• kike

Etymology

From Middle English kiken, keken, perhaps a borrowing from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken. Related to Scots keek, West Frisian kytse, Dutch kijken, Swedish kika, Icelandic kíkja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɪk/
• Rhymes: -aɪk

Verb

kyke (third-person singular simple present kykes, present participle kyking, simple past and past participle kyked)

1. (obsolete) To look steadfastly; to gaze.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:

     This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright, / As he had kyked on the newe mone.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for kyke in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)