tik

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tik (uncountable)

1. (South Africa, slang) crystal meth or speed.
   • 2004 June 8, “On the Tik-Tik express”, in SABC News‎, archived from the original on 2 June 2006:

     This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine – known locally as tik. It’s been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast among the youth of the Western Cape.

   • 2006 May 13, Weekend Argus, page 12:

     Over a third of all people seeking rehabilitation in the second half of 2005 reported that their primary problem was tik.

   • 2020 October 10, Mike Simpson, “More seizures of drug consignments on long-distance buses”, in The South African‎:

     Hardly a week goes by without news of a crime bust of some kind involving one of the buses travelling cross-country, with everything from mandrax to tik, marijuana and abalone finding its way on board.

• ITK, KIT, Kit, ikt, kit

• IPA^(key): /tək/

From Dutch tikken.

tik (present tik, present participle tikkende, past participle getik)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to tap
2. (transitive) to type
3. (Cape Afrikaans, intransitive) to use crystal meth

   Synonym: tjoef

From Dutch tik.

tik (plural tikke)

1. tap
2. (Cape Afrikaans, uncountable) crystal meth

   Synonym: tjoef

• tikkop
• tiklollie

tīk (inalienable)

1. female
2. sister (of a man)

tik m

1. A tick, a twitch.

tik (plural diäär or dior)

1. woman
2. wife

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

• IPA^(key): /tɪk/

• tik

  (file)

• Hyphenation: tik
• Rhymes: -ɪk

From tikken.

tik m (plural tikken, diminutive tikje n)

1. tick (a kind of sound)
2. tap
3. slap
4. little bit (In: "een tikje meer")

• schoudertik

• Afrikaans: tik
• → Papiamentu: tiki (from the diminutive)
• Indonesian: tik

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tik

1. first-person singular present indicative of tikken
2. imperative of tikken

• kit

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tik

1. louse

• IPA^(key): /tîk/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tɪ̂k]

tîk

1. something heavy falling

• bîf, tîm

• IPA^(key): [ˈtik]
• Hyphenation: tik
• Rhymes: -ik

tik

1. (personal, folksy) Alternative form of ti (“you, plural”).

• (folksy alternative form of tyúk (“hen”)): tik , redirecting to tyúk in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (folksy alternative form of ti (“you all”)): tik , redirecting to (1): ti in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• ketik (nonstandard)

From Dutch tik or tikken.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɪk̚]
• Hyphenation: tik

tik (first-person possessive tikku, second-person possessive tikmu, third-person possessive tiknya)

1. typewriter, a device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.

• “tik” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

tik

1. so

   tik daudz ― so many

tik

1. not so... as

• IPA^(key): [tʲɪk]

tik (not comparable)

1. just, only (nothing more than; nothing else other than)

   Kàs bùs toliaũ, gãlima tìk spėlióti - We can only speculate as to what will come next.

   Jìs tìk bė̃go ir̃ bė̃go. - He just ran and ran.

2. only just, barely, hardly

   Rãdo jį̃ tik gývą, tik nenùmirė - We found him barely alive, he almost died.

tik

1. but, yet, just (introduces a concession)

   Labaĩ nóriu, tìk pinigų̃ neturiù. - I'd love to, just I don't have the money

tik

1. (in conjunction with question words) -ever, no matter …

   Kõ tìk ìmasi, tàs sẽkasi. - He succeeds at whatever he puts his hand to.

• (adverb, just, only): vien, tiktai
• (adverb, barely): vos, bemaž
• (conjunction): bet, tačiau
• (particle): bebūtų, bet

• ką tik
• tik tik
• tiktai

Of imitative origin.

tìk

1. Noise made to call chickens
2. tick (sound of a clock ticking)

• (chicken call): cik

tìk

1. second-person singular imperative of tikti

From Old Norse tík.

tik f or m (definite singular tika or tiken, indefinite plural tiker, definite plural tikene)

1. a female canine
2. a ewe

From Old Norse tík.

tik f (definite singular tika, indefinite plural tiker, definite plural tikene)

1. a female canine
2. a ewe

Borrowed from French tic.

• IPA^(key): /tik/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: tik

tik m inan

1. (medicine) tic (local and habitual convulsive motion)

• tik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tik in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Baltic [Term?]. Compare Lithuanian tìk, Latvian tik, however Old Prussian ter (“only”).[1][2]

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tik

1. only, just
   • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 21, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     tylko — tik

     tylko — only

From Old Norse tík (“bitch”). Compare English tyke.

• IPA^(key): /tiːk/
• Rhymes: -iːk

tik c

1. a bitch (female canine)

• hynda

tik

1. only, solitary

From Proto-Finnic *tikka. Cognates include Finnish tikka.

tik

1. woodpecker

Borrowed from English think.

• IPA^(key): /tik/

tik (nominative plural tiks)

1. thought (object or instance of thinking)

• tikäl
• tikön