different between uke vs huke

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju?k/

Noun

uke (plural ukes)

1. (informal) Clipping of ukulele.

Etymology 2

From Japanese ?? (uke), derived from the verb ??? (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?ke/

Noun

uke (plural ukes or uke)

1. (judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
2. (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
   • 2008, Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ?ISBN, page 142:

     Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

   • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

   • 2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, "Afterword", in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing (2010), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:uke.

Antonyms

• seme

Anagrams

• Kue

Japanese

Romanization

uke

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wik?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Noun

uke f or m (definite singular uka or uken, indefinite plural uker, definite plural ukene)

1. a week

Derived terms

• arbeidsuke
• ukeavis
• ukelang
• ukentlig

See also

• veke (Nynorsk)

References

• “uke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Swahili

Etymology

From u- +? mke.

Pronunciation

Noun

uke (u class, no plural)

1. womanhood

   Antonym: uume

2. (euphemistic) vulva, vagina

   Synonym: kuma

English

Alternative forms

• heuk
• hyke

Etymology

From Old French huque, from Latin huca. See Dutch huik (“sleeveless cape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hju?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k

Noun

huke (plural hukes)

1. (obsolete) An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages.

   • there came one that seemed to be a messenger , in a rich huke

Anagrams

• heuk, kueh

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From the noun huk

Verb

huke (imperative huk, present tense huker, passive hukes, simple past huka or huket or hukte, past participle huka or huket or hukt, present participle hukende)

1. to hook, to pull in with a hook
2. to grab, snatch
3. huke tak (i) - to catch hold (of)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse húka and huk

Verb

huke (imperative huk, present tense huker, passive hukes, simple past huka or huket or hukte, past participle huka or huket or hukt, present participle hukende)

(reflexive) to crouch, squat

References

• “huke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “huke_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “huke_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• huka

Etymology 1

From the noun huk

Verb

huke (present tense hukar, past tense huka, past participle huka, passive infinitive hukast, present participle hukande, imperative huk)

1. to hook, to pull in with a hook
2. to grab, snatch
3. huke tak (i) - to catch hold (of)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse húka and huk

Verb

huke (present tense huker, past tense hukte, past participle hukt, passive infinitive hukast, present participle hukande, imperative huk)

(reflexive) to crouch, squat

References

• “huke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.