different between drake vs jake

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrek? (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at ennet.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.

Derived terms

• duck on drake
• ducks and drakes
• sheldrake

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drak? (“dragon”), from Latin drac? (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n, “serpent, giant seafish”), from ???????? (dérkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *der?-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
2. (poetic) A dragon.
   • 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria

     Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.

3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
4. A fiery meteor.
   • c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The moon’s my constant Mistresse
     & the lowlie owle my morrowe.
     The flaming Drake and y? Nightcrowe make
     mee musicke to my sorrowe.

5. A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

Synonyms

• (mayfly): drake fly

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Radke, daker, darke, raked

Afrikaans

Noun

drake

1. plural of draak

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin drac? (“dragon”).

Noun

dr?ke m

1. dragon, wyrm

Inflection

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Descendants

• Dutch: draak
  • Afrikaans: draak
• Limburgish: draagk, draogk

Further reading

• “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• drage

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n) and Old Norse dreki.

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)

1. a dragon
2. a kite

References

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dreki, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²dr??k?/

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)

1. a dragon
2. a kite
3. a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head

References

• “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish draki, from Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drak?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr???k?/

Noun

drake c

1. dragon
2. kite
3. a male duck, drake
4. a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

Declension

Anagrams

• kader

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?e?k/

Adjective

jake (comparative more jake, superlative most jake)

1. (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 126:

     ‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’

Noun

jake (countable and uncountable, plural jakes)

1. (US) A juvenile male turkey.
2. (New York, slang) police, a federal government officer.
   • 1998, Big L, "Ebonics (Criminal Slang)"

     A radio is a box, a razor blade is a ox / fat diamonds is rocks and jakes is cops.

3. (slang) A police officer (on foot, rather than in a patrol car)
4. (US, slang, uncountable) Jamaica ginger
5. A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual.
   • 1993, "selvarv, the keeper of Rig", Today's impending JAKE! (on newsgroup alt.discordia)

     Hello, I'm afraid in some regards I'm too discordian for my own good and I forgot to either write down the jake-dupe's address, or include it in my repost when I suggested today as jake day....

   • 1994, "Matthew Morse", StarTrek (on newsgroup alt.discordia)

     It strikes me that organizing a jake over the net is a bad idea, because Hormel could conceivably find out about it before it happens. That's not going to stop me from participating though.

   • 1999, "Jeff X. Mink", My Christmas Card! (on newsgroup alt.discordia)

     Call me old fashioned, but this situation is really inappropriate for a jake. […] I mean that a little girl was seriously injured, […] and we, as Discordians, should have more respect for the holy tradition of the jake, and use its powers only for those situations where it can actually do some good, or at least be worth a good laugh.

Derived terms

• jake leg

Verb

jake (third-person singular simple present jakes, present participle jaking, simple past and past participle jaked)

1. (transitive) To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.