yike

British  

/ jaɪk /

noun

1. an argument, squabble, or fight

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verb

1. to argue, squabble, or fight

Etymology

Origin of yike

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

If this is an oversight, a mere mistake, yike.

From Salon