different between cuke vs luke

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of cucumber.

Noun

cuke (plural cukes)

1. (informal) A cucumber.
   • 2009, Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy

     By the time she was nine, Nina was traveling to distant markets on her own to sell her family's fresh tomatoes, beans, squash, zukes, cukes, peppers […]

Etymology 2

Clipping of cucoloris.

Noun

cuke (plural cukes)

1. (slang) A cucoloris.

Volapük

Noun

cuke

1. dative singular of cuk

English

Etymology

Back-formation from lukewarm. Compare lew.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k

Adjective

luke (not comparable)

1. (rare) lukewarm
   • 1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249:

     Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
     cast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself
     in the luke water, and turned from his companions;
     but he died as soon as he touched the water,
     and the warmness was turned into death to him […]

   • 1983, C. Darrel Sheraw, Lou Horton, and Bill Durbin, The Call Duck Breed Book, page 106:

     Secondly, fresh, preferably luke to warm water must be provided in waterers every day to avoid dehydration, weakening and ‘going light’. […] Warm to luke water is given in waterers as an alternative because all fowl drink more water if it is not excessively cold, […]

   • 2016, Ankur and Vandana Mehrotra, You Can Do It: Find Answers to All Your Questions on How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Now:

     Same time, if you put the other hand in cold water and then in luke water, you will feel luke warm water is hot.

Anagrams

• leku, leuk-

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to the verb lukke

Noun

luke f or m (definite singular luka or luken, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)

1. a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
2. a hatch
3. a window (e.g. ticket window)
4. a gap, space, slot, opening

Derived terms

• bakluke
• takluke

References

• “luke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Related to the verb lukke

Noun

luke f (definite singular luka, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)

1. a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
2. a hatch
3. a window (e.g. ticket window)
4. a gap, space, slot, opening

Derived terms

• bakluke
• takluke

References

• “luke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scots

Noun

luke (plural lukes)

1. Alternative form of luik

Verb

luke (third-person singular present lukes, present participle lukin, past lukit, past participle lukit)

1. Alternative form of luik

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

luke (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of luka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovene

Noun

luke

1. inflection of luka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural