different between duke vs muke

English

Etymology

From Old French duc, through Middle English duke, from Latin dux, ducis. Displaced native Old English heretoga. Was present as duc in late Old English, from the same Latin source. Doublet of dux and doge.

The “fist” sense is thought to be Cockney rhyming slang where “Duke(s) of York” = fork. Fork is itself cockney slang for hand, and thus fist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?k/, /d?u?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d(j)u?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophone: juke (with yod coalescence)

Noun

duke (plural dukes)

1. The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
2. The sovereign of a small state.
3. A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.

   Hypernyms: title, holder

   Coordinate terms: baron, count, countess, earl, marquis, marquess, viscount, prince, monarch

4. A grand duke.
5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
6. (slang, usually in the plural) A fist.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

duke (third-person singular simple present dukes, present participle duking, simple past and past participle duked)

1. (transitive, informal) To hit or beat with the fists.
2. (slang, transitive) To give cash to; to give a tip to.

   Synonym: tip

Derived terms

References

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?duk?]

Particle

duke

1. A particle which precedes a participle to form a gerundive adverbial phrase.

   duke kënduar — (while) singing, by singing

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish duque (“duke”).

Noun

duke

1. duke

Middle English

Alternative forms

• duk, duc, duyk, doyk, dug

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French duc, from Latin dux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diu?k/

Noun

duke (plural dukes)

1. leader, guide, commander, boss
2. noble, lord
3. duke (rank of nobility)

Related terms

• duchesse
• dukedom
• duche

Descendants

• English: duke
• Scots: duik, duke

References

• “d?k, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

Scots

Verb

duke (third-person singular present dukes, present participle dukin, past dukit, past participle dukit)

1. to cut into a queue, without permission (intransitive); to cut into a queue in front of someone (transitive)

   Oi, dinnae duke us!

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish duque (“duke”).

Noun

duke

1. duke

English

Etymology 1

Noun

muke (plural mukes)

1. Alternative form of mook
   • 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps [1]

     Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live this fucking life of a muke, he has got to be sick of it, but he is not a muke, he is a serious guy.

Etymology 2

Mandarin, perhaps ?? (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).

Noun

muke (plural muke)

1. (Chinese mythology) A kind of tree spirit.
   • 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way [2]

     According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.

Anagrams

• Kemu

Chimwiini

Noun

muke 1 (plural wake)

1. woman

Antonyms

• mubli (“man”)

Further reading

• Larry M. Hyman, Suffix ordering in Bantu, in Yearbook of Morphology 2002, edited by Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle, page 259
• An introduction to African linguistics (2000), citing Kenstowicz & Kisseberth 1979

East Futuna

Verb

muke

1. To set a goal.

Noun

muke

1. A fixed goal.

References

• Dictionnaire futunien-français, Claire Moyse-Faurie [3]

Japanese

Romanization

muke

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Malay

Noun

muke

1. (dialectal, Pontianak) face

Manchu

Romanization

muke

1. Romanization of ????

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

muke

1. Alternative form of mek

Etymology 2

Noun

muke

1. Alternative form of muk
   • 15th c. Robert Henryson, The Cock and the Jasp [4]

     Pietie it wer thow suld ly in this mydding,

     Be buryit thus amang this muke and mold,

     And thow so fair and warth sa mekill gold.

Etymology 3

Verb

muke

1. Alternative form of mukken

Nage

Noun

muke

1. Chalcophaps indica, the emerald dove.

References

• Nage Birds, Gregory L. Forth ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

muke (Cyrillic spelling ????)

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