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dyke 1 or esp US dike Noun 1. a wall built to prevent flooding 2. a ditch 3. Scot a dry-stone wall [Old English dic ditch] dyke 2 or dike Noun Slang a lesbian [origin unknown]
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Translations dyke [daɪk] n (Brit) (wall) → Deich m, Damm m; (channel) → (Entwässerungs)graben m; (causeway) → Fahrdamm m n dyke, dike [daik] an embankment built as a barrier against the sea etc. dyk سَد، حاجِز боядисвам hráz dige; dæmning der Deich ανάχωμα dique tamm, kaldavall آب بند؛ مانع pato digue סֶכֶר नहर nasip védőgát tanggul flóðgarður, stíflugarður diga 堤防 제방, 방벽 pylimas dambis; aizsprosts daik dijk dike, demning tama, zapora dique дамба; плотина hrádza nasip nasip []vall เขื่อนกั้นน้ำ set, bent 溝,堤壩 дамба, гребля سمندری سیلاب کو روکنے کے لۓ باندھا گیا پشتہ con đê 沟,堤坝 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In Swimming Pool, a sly thriller with quicksilver slides into and out of fantasy, Rampling plays a famed, sharp-tongued British mystery writer with a haircut like an ex-nun's and lips drawn in perpetual disapproval; she's an embodiment of dykey photos of such real-life thriller writers as Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell. Terry, who lives in Melbourne with partner Grazynka Ziemkiewicz, 26, says that on the whole, lesbian life in Australia "could be likened to lesbian life in many places around the world--generally less visible than the gay male scene and with a limited selection of distinctly dykey nightlife options available. The Killing of Sister George (1968)--Viperish BBC executive Mercy Croft (Coral Browne) puts the moves on Childie (Susannah York), the girlfriend of dykey soap actress June Buckridge (Beryl Reid), in a sequence steamy enough to be cut by censors in various New England states in 1968. |
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