"bulldyke" shortened from "bulldog-like"?

[Laurence Horn]

P.S.  I should have said that the part I found especially unlikely is
the "shortening":

>    So how about:"bulldike" arose by shortening from
>"bulldog-like"

Is there any indication that "X-like" truncated in this way in any
other case?  If we could trace, say, "trike" to a truncation of
"triangle-like", or if "kike" could be traced to "Kong-like" (or
something) it would be more plausible to think the above shift was
possible.

L