Spike

See also: spike

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aɪk

Proper noun

Spike

  1. A male nickname.
    • 1995, Donna E. Norton, Through the eyes of a child: an introduction to children's literature (page 418)
      This book contains mostly humorous animal poems by poets such as Spike Milligan, Theodore Roethke, and Rudyard Kipling.
    • 2013 Zadie Smith, N-W, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 238:
      He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.

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German

Noun

Spike m

case singular plural
nominative der Spikedie Spikes
genitive des Spikesder Spikes
dative dem Spikeden Spikes
accusative den Spikedie Spikes
  1. spike (nail or something similar to it)

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