different between shaky vs shaku

English

Etymology

shake +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?ki/
• Rhymes: -e?ki

Adjective

shaky (comparative shakier, superlative shakiest)

1. Shaking or trembling.

   a shaky spot in a marsh

   a shaky hand

2. Nervous, anxious.

   He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky.

   • 2006, Paul A. Grayson, ?Philip W. Meilman, College Mental Health Practice (page 11)

     For the college clinician, restless nights after letting a shaky student walk out of the office are an occupational hazard. Are the student's safety assurances credible? Will he or she make it safely through the weekend?
3. (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.

   shaky timber

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:shaky.

4. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.

   a shaky constitution

   shaky business credit

5. Wavering; undecided.

Synonyms

• (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): precarious, rickety, unsteady, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobbly

Derived terms

• shakiness
• shakycam

Translations

Anagrams

• hayks

English

Etymology

A romanization of Japanese ? (shaku). Doublet of chi and chek.

Noun

shaku (plural shaku or shakus)

1. The Japanese foot, a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun or ¹/₁₀ of a j?, now standardized as equal to ¹⁰/₃₃ of a meter.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:shaku.

Synonyms

• Japanese foot

See also

• ken

References

• De Visser, M.W. (2003) Dragon in China and Japan, ?ISBN
• Engel, Heino (1989) Measure and Construction of the Japanese House, ?ISBN
• Field, Norma (1997) From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo, ?ISBN
• Jackson, David (2002) Japanese Cabinetry: The Art & Craft of Tansu, ?ISBN
• Masaaki, Hatsumi (2006) Japanese Sword Fighting: Secrets of the Samurai, ?ISBN
• Mezur, Katherine (2005) Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness, ?ISBN
• Tarver, D.E. (2004) The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi, ?ISBN
• Wheeler, Post (2006) The Sacred Scriptures of The Japanese, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Husak, Shuka, Ushak, shuka

Japanese

Romanization

shaku

1. R?maji transcription of ???