different between nuke vs muke

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nju?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n(j)uk/
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophones: neuk, nuc
• Hyphenation: nuke

Etymology 1

Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

nuke (plural nukes) (chiefly US, colloquial)

1. A nuclear weapon.
2. (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
3. A nuclear power station.
4. (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
5. A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
6. (warez) A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).
7. (rare) A microwave oven.

Derived terms

• antinuke
• micronuke
• nukage
• nukespeak
• nukewar
• tacnuke

Translations

Verb

nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)

1. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
2. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.

   Synonyms: annihilate, devastate, obliterate; see also Thesaurus:destroy

   1. (Wikimedia Commons jargon) to completely delete all uploads of an user, usually due to copyright violations or vandalism
3. (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
4. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
5. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
6. (transitive, warez) To flag a release as bad for some reason or another (for instance, due to being a dupe of an earlier release or containing malware).
7. (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To over-analyze or overly despair over something.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of nuc(leus)

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

1. Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”)

Etymology 3

See nucha.

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

2. (anatomy, obsolete) Alternative form of nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”)

Etymology 4

See nook.

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

1. (chiefly Northern England, archaic) Alternative form of nook (“a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land”)

References

Further reading

• nuke (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• neuk, unke

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