different between uke vs oke

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Verb

oke

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of ache
2. (obsolete) simple past tense of ake

Etymology 2

See oka

Noun

oke (plural okes)

1. (historical units of measurement) Alternative form of oka.
   • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXX, s.v. "Rottolo":

     At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴?₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois... At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois...

References

• oke in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 3

Shortened borrowing from Afrikaans outjie.

Noun

oke (plural okes)

1. (South Africa, slang) Man; guy; bloke.
   • 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex:

     I had initiated an African ritual by giving the pipe to him. And you can never stay befuck with an oke you smoke nchangu with.

   • 2009 (2016), Kevin Richardson, Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa, page 39:

     When that oke talked, I listened.

Etymology 4

From Middle English oke

Noun

oke (plural okes)

1. Obsolete spelling of oak

Anagrams

• EKO, Keo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ke??/

Etymology

From English OK

Interjection

oke

1. OK, okay

Esperanto

Etymology

ok +? -e

Adverb

oke

1. eighthly

Indonesian

Etymology

From English OK

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ke/
• Hyphenation: oké

Interjection

oké

1. (colloquial) OK (acceptance, acknowledgement)

Verb

oké

1. (colloquial) OK (acceptance, acknoledgement)

Further reading

• “oke” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

oke

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Mikasuki

Noun

oke

1. water

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

oke

1. inflection of oka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Ternate

Verb

oke

1. drink

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh.