tik

Early 21st century, perhaps imitative of the popping sounds made by meth being lit and smoked.[1]

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

tīk (inalienable)

1. female
2. sister (of a man)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪk]

tik m inan

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

• kit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tik

1. louse

• bîf, tîm

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

tîk

1. something heavy falling

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

tik (plural tikok)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of tyúk (“hen”).

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’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). 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’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• ketik (nonstandard)

From Dutch tik, 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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

tik

1. so

   tik daudz ― so many

tik

1. not so... as

Traditionally considered a shortening of tíek (“so much”) or tiektaĩ (“not only”), though the phonological processes involved are unclear.[1]

• IPA^(key): [tʲɪk]

tik (not comparable)

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

   Synonyms: vien, tiktai

   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

   Synonyms: bemaž, vos

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

tik

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

   Synonyms: bet, tačiau

   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 …

   Synonyms: bebūtų, bet

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

Of imitative origin.

tìk

1. Noise made to call chickens

   Synonym: cik

2. tick (sound of a clock ticking)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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)

   Synonym: hynda

tik

1. only, solitary

From Ottoman Turkish تیك (tik), from French tic.

tik (definite accusative tiği, plural tikler)

1. tic (movement)
2. tic (mannerism)

From Ottoman Turkish تیك (tik), from English teak.

tik (definite accusative tiği, plural tikler)

1. teak [from 19th c.]

From English tick.

tik (definite accusative tiği, plural tikler)

1. tick (check mark) [from 2002]
   • 2023 May 4, “Kılıçdaroğlu'na 'gri tik' verildi”, in Cumhuriyet:

     Millet İttifakı’nın Cumhurbaşkanı adayı Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu'nun Twitter hesabına "gri tik" verildi.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “tik”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tik1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tik2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tik3”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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)