different between luke vs juke

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??u?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophones: jook (some senses), duke (with yod coalescence)

Etymology 1

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).

Noun

juke (plural jukes)

1. (Southern US) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
2. Short for jukebox.
   • 2011, Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning

     The juke played five times for a quarter and she never wearied of tapping. Nor did she tire of the same record five times in a row; she was too indolent to select more than one number.

Synonyms

• barrelhouse
• juke house
• juke joint

Translations

Derived terms

• jukebox
• juke joint

Verb

juke (third-person singular simple present jukes, present participle juking, simple past and past participle juked)

1. to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke

Etymology 2

From Jamaican Creole jook.

Verb

juke (third-person singular simple present jukes, present participle juking, simple past and past participle juked)

1. (slang) to hit
2. (prison slang) to stab
   • 2007, Teenager filmed by friend as he stabbed 16-year-old student to death (in Mail Online, 9 February 2007) [1]

     On the internet that night Asghar told a friend: "I'll bang him and then f*** it man, might as well juke [stab] him up tomorrow."

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stab

Alternative forms

• (to stab): jook (/d??k/)

Etymology 3

From Middle English jowken (“bend”)

Verb

juke (third-person singular simple present jukes, present participle juking, simple past and past participle juked)

1. (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer

   Synonym: dummy
2. (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
4. (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
5. (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.

Noun

juke (plural jukes)

1. (sports) A feint.

   Synonym: dummy

2. The neck of a bird.

References