yike

/ jaɪk /

noun

1. an argument, squabble, or fight

verb

1. to argue, squabble, or fight

Word History and Origins

Origin of yike¹

origin unknown

Example Sentences

In the book, I describe Gabriel as an infant and a toddler: how he would squeeze his sister’s arm and say, “I’m enjoying you!”; his devotion to cake; his fraught relationship with trees, “the trees don’t yike me”; his profound bond with a pair of bee motif rain boots, which he wore to bed for six months.

From Slate

One user, Yike Zhengxinxin, describes a feeling of "silent helplessness" saying that "society makes me more and more frustrated".

From BBC

Gao Yike, 25, who works at a real estate company in the northeastern provincial capital of Harbin, said in a telephone interview that the project management department laid off employees in April.

From New York Times

Gao Yike, 25, an investor and an employee at a real estate company in Harbin, blamed the market fall on “the state’s inadequate regulation.”

From New York Times

"I don't yike the New Test'ment," commented Toady Lion in his shrill high pipe, which cuts through all other conversation as easily as a sharp knife cleaves a bar of soap; "ain't never nobody killed dead in the New Test'ment!"

From Project Gutenberg