dyke

• n. ダイク; レズビアン
• n.（レズ）人の名前；（英）Dyke；（独）Dick

dig,ditchと同じ語源を持つdikeのスペル変化から。 lesbianismの語源は不明だが、おそらく女性のマンコを意味するdykeのスラングから。

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.

1匹の羊が溝を飛び越え、残りの羊もそれに合わせて跳んだ。

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

千里の堤防がアリの穴から決壊した。

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

千里の堤が蟻の穴から決壊した。

4.A weak dyke bursts easily before a flood.

大水はまず、頑丈ではない堤防を破壊する。

5.The workers finished the dyke with remarkable speed.

労働者たちは驚くべき速度でダム建設を完了した。