Oshi and Sasha were just gone! 🐶 I’d stopped to take a photo of a snow-topped Tararua peak, picked up a discarded plastic bottle, turned around, and the dogs were gone. Tl;dr: I got them back after prolonged searching and enlisting help from passersby. 🐶🐶 were unrepentant!
Miraz Jordan @smokey Me too. Especially after Oshi turned up but I still couldn’t find Sasha. Little tykes.
Odd-Egil “Oddzthrash” Auran I had an idea what tyke meant, from the context, but I looked it up, and the first bullet said:
- a native of Yorkshire
Later came what I thought it was. 😃
Holly Honeychurch @odd Tyke....ooooo that takes me back to being called that when I was a kiddo growing up in the Midlands - a bit further south than Yorkshire. It made its way down the country and was always an endearing name-call.
Jean MacDonald @hollyhoneychurch @miraz I had no idea about the origin of “tyke” and promptly fell down a rabbit hole of geography-based nicknames in the UK like Brummie and Geordie.
(So glad you found your pups, Miraz. That sounds like a pet anxiety dream I’ve had once in a while.)
Odd-Egil “Oddzthrash” Auran @macgenie AC/DC vocalist Brian Johnson was in Geordie before he joined the Aussies. @miraz @hollyhoneychurch
Smokey Ardisson @macgenie @hollyhoneychurch @miraz @odd I was only familiar with the “small child” meaning of tyke; I had no idea about all the others (nor the Old Norse origin)! Changes the meaning of what Miraz wrote a good bit.
Odd-Egil “Oddzthrash” Auran @smokey I didn’t know it was Old Norse, however I thought about a northern Norwegian curse word / name of the devil/little devil(?): “Tykje” when I found the Yorkshire reference. There was of course a strong Norman presence in Yorkshire.
Smokey Ardisson @odd Apple Dictionary, at least, quotes tyke’s ultimate origin (via late Middle English) as the Old Norse tík.
Odd-Egil “Oddzthrash” Auran @smokey Hah! Thanks. The way our languages change over a relatively short time, we wouldn’t understand the “Nu-Millennials” of 3000AD! 👀