dyke

• n. 堤；女子同性戀者
• n. (Dyke)人名；(英)戴克；(德)迪克

來自dike拚寫變體，詞源同dig,ditch. 女同性戀義詞源不詳，可能來自dyke的俚語女陰。

dyke

dyke: see ditch

dyke (n.)

1931, American English, perhaps a shortening of morphadike, dialectal garbling of hermaphrodite; but bulldyker "engage in lesbian activities" is attested from 1921, and a source from 1896 lists dyke as slang for "the vulva."

[T]he word appears first in the long forms, bulldiker and bulldyking, both used in the 1920s by American blacks. No African antecedents have been found for the term, however, which leads to the possibility that this is basically just another backcountry, barnyard word, perhaps a combination of BULL and DICK. [Rawson]

1. If one sheep leap over the dyke, all the rest will follow.

一隻羊跳過溝, 其餘的羊也跟著跳.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. One ant - hole may cause the collapse of a thousand - li dyke.

千裏長堤,潰於蟻穴.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. One ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand - li dyke.

千裏之堤,潰於蟻穴.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

4. A weak dyke bursts easily before a flood.

大水首先衝毀不堅固的堤防.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The workers finished the dyke with remarkable speed.

工人們以驚人的速度完成了築壩工程.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》