This word is used in a common and colloquial way in the Dominican Republic where Dominicans, being so creative and jocular have taken possession of words that have in a formal way a different meaning, but they use it to decorate their conversations, for sample a button.
The word dike formally means retaining wall, or wall made to retain water.
A measure taken to prevent the spread of something harmful.
From this terminology different meanings are derived, such as: reservoir dock, floating dock, dry dock or hull dock, among others, each of the aforementioned are still containment structures, but they are intended to contain different materials.
SYNONYMS FOR Dique
Formal origin of the word dike comes from Dutch meaning an artificial wall to hold back water. Dutch is the Germanic language spoken in Holland.
Now when we refer to the colloquial use that is attributed to it in the Dominican Republic, it is nothing more than the degradation that the Spanish language is suffering due to the fact that they have literally removed the letter z, it should be correctly written “Dizque” which is an adverb that expresses doubt, apparently, as it seems or supposedly.
ORIGIN OF Dique
Formal origin of the word dike comes from Dutch meaning an artificial wall to hold back water. Dutch is the Germanic language spoken in Holland.
Now when we refer to the colloquial use that is attributed to it in the Dominican Republic, it is nothing more than the degradation that the Spanish language is suffering due to the fact that they have literally removed the letter z, it should be correctly written “Dizque” which is an adverb that expresses doubt, apparently, as it seems or supposedly.
CURIOSITIES OF Dique
It turns out that this same word “dique”, which has originated from the degradation suffered from the term “Dizque”, has a twin brother that would become the word “quizque”, it is used in Colombia to express doubt, irony or skepticism to a greater degree than that communicated by the word dizque.