gay tyke boy

English edit

gay tyke boy (plural gay tyke boys)

(UK, slang, obsolete) A dog-fancier.
- 1850, William Thomas Moncrieff, An original collection of Songs, sung at the Theatres Royal, etc, page 107:
  The Sprig of Myrtle is matched with the pink of Bow—the gay tyke boys are all up in their stirrups at the news.
- 1870, Pierce Egan, Life in London, etc, page 260:
  The Plate is a correct representation of the animation displayed upon this subject by the gay TYKE-BOYS; and most of their nobs for low cunning are able to get the “best of” the keenest barristers in the kingdom, […]