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What is a tyke?

What is a tyke? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
  2. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one
    1. (Canada) An initiation level of sports competition for young children (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
  4. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman
  5. (derogatory) A Roman Catholic
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As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather.
This back and forth happens once or twice more, and then there's a little to-do because the tyke has wet the little pants she is wearing.
For those of you who aren't following me on Facebook, here is a picture of the growing little tyke.
Begay Jr., paints a vivid picture of a young tyke begging his father to take him on his regular three-mile run.
I tried to explain that he could just look at the scoreboard, but after about the third time I realized that concept still eluded the tyke.
But as the years went on and he started receiving close to 1,000 spam e-mails a day, this determined tyke decided to take action.

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