gay tyke boy

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Noun

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gay tyke boy (plural gay tyke boys)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A dog-fancier.
    • 1850, William Thomas Moncrieff, An original collection of Songs, sung at the Theatres Royal, etc, page 107:
      The Sprig of Myrtle is matched with the pink of Bow—the gay tyke boys are all up in their stirrups at the news.
    • 1870, Pierce Egan, Life in London, etc, page 260:
      The Plate is a correct representation of the animation displayed upon this subject by the gay TYKE-BOYS; and most of their nobs for low cunning are able to get the “best of” the keenest barristers in the kingdom, […]

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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