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pyke

pyke is the obsolete form of peek.

pyke is the obsolete form of pick.

pyke is the obsolete form of pike.

pyke is the obsolete form of paik.

Meaning of peek

Verb

peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
    • Close your eyes, and no peeking!
  2. (informal, intransitive) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
    • A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories, →ISBN
  3. (informal, intransitive, especially first-person shooters) To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information).
    • Sniper watching the site; don't peek.
  4. (informal, transitive) To take a look at; to check out.
    • Peek my new shoes.
  5. (dated, informal, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
    • We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming, page 279

See all 7 meanings of peek

Meaning of pick

Verb

pick (third-person singular simple present picks, present participle picking, simple past and past participle picked)

  1. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
    • Don't pick at that scab.
  2. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
    • It's time to pick the tomatoes.
  3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
    • She picked flowers in the meadow.
  4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
    • to pick rags
  5. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
    • to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket
  6. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
    • I'll pick the one with the nicest name.

See all 37 meanings of pick

Proper noun capitalized: Pyke

Pyke (plural Pykes)

  1. A surname, variant of Pike.

Forms of pyke

Verb
third-person singular presentpykes
present participlepyking
past participlepyked
pastpyked
Noun
pluralpykes
Proper noun
pluralPykes

Origin of pyke

English and Irish surname, spelling variant of Pike.

Words formed from pyke

Questions about pyke

What does pyke mean?
Pyke means a surname, variant of Pike.
What is pyke the obsolete form of?
Pyke is the obsolete form of peek.
What part of speech is pyke?
Pyke is a proper noun.

Words near pyke in the dictionary

  1. pyjammas
  2. Pyka
  3. pykar
  4. pykars
  5. Pykas
  6. pyke
  7. pyked
  8. pykes
  9. pyking
  10. pykna
  11. pyknic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pyke (page history and authors); Pyke (page history and authors); peek (page history and authors); pick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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