different between uke vs zuke

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

Etymology

Shortening. Compare cuke.

Pronunciation

Noun

zuke (plural zukes)

1. (US, colloquial) Zucchini.
   • 2005, Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook

     But please use tender young squash. The zuke someone overlooked in the garden until it was the size of a rolling pin will be too bitter for this casserole.

   • 2009, Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy

     By the time she was nine, Nina was traveling to distant markets on her own to sell her family's fresh tomatoes, beans, squash, zukes, cukes, peppers […]