tyke /taɪk/ noun5 •(informal) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.Manipulative little tyke I was. — 1983 •(UK, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman. •(dialect) A mongrel dog. •(Canada, informal) Designating an initiation level of sports competition for young children. •(UK, old-fashioned) An uncultured, crude and unrefined or uncouth ill-bred person.Why, the inquiry thing, the yellow-dog thing—you wouldn’t think a mangy, native tyke would be allowed to trip up people in the verandah of a magistrate’s court, would you? — 1900 formstykes
Tyke noun2 •(UK, informal) a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman; a Yorkshire person •(slang) someone connected with Barnsley Football Club, as a fan, player, coach, etc. formsTykes