different between nake vs jake

English

Etymology

From Middle English naken (“to nake”), from Old English nacian (“to bare, strip, make naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakw?n? (“to make naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *nog?- (“to make naked”). Cognate with Old Norse n?kkva (“to bare, expose”). More at naked.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Verb

nake (third-person singular simple present nakes, present participle naking, simple past and past participle naked)

1. (now chiefly Scotland) To make naked; to bare.

Synonyms

• expose, reveal; see also Thesaurus:reveal

Anagrams

• Kane, Kean, aken, enka, kaen, kena

Creek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?k?/

Noun

nake (plural nakvke)

1. thing
2. what? (interrogative pronoun)
3. ...that which... (relative pronoun)

Dutch

Verb

nake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of naken

Anagrams

• Aken, aken, kane

Middle English

Etymology 1

A back-formation from naked.

Alternative forms

• naken

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?k(?)/

Adjective

nake (rare)

1. naked, exposed, miserly

Descendants

• Yola: naaghen

References

• “n?ke, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.

Etymology 2

Verb

nake

1. Alternative form of naken

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• nakent

Adjective

nake

1. neuter singular of naken

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.