different between woke vs woked

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /wo?k/
• enPR: w?k
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Shortened from woken or woke(n) up.

Adjective

woke (not generally comparable, comparative more woke or woker, superlative most woke or wokest)

1. (dialect, African-American Vernacular or slang) Awake: conscious and not asleep.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:awake

2. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially in racial and other social justice issues.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vigilant

   Coordinate terms: (chiefly derogatory) politically correct, (British) right-on

   • 1942, J. Saunders Redding, Negro Digest, Volume 01:

     Waking up is a damn sight harder than going to sleep, but we’ll stay woke up longer.

   • 2014, Lynn Sweeting, WomanSpeak, A Journal of Writing and Art by Caribbean Women, volume 7:

     […] stay woke[,] people of color, / let us occupy this dissent

4. (slang, often derogatory) Holding left-wing views or attitudes, principally with regards to certain social justice issues or to an excessive degree.
   • 2019 October 29, Barack Obama quoted in the New York Times[3]:

     Like, if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, cause, "Man, you see how woke I was, I called you out." That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change.

Usage notes

• Like politically correct, woke started off as a positive word used by people to describe themselves and their behavior and gained negative connotations over time. Some derogatory uses of woke refer to people who would self-identify as woke.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: woke

Translations

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

woke

1. simple past tense and past participle of wake

Further reading

• “woke”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Sam Sanders (December 30, 2018) , “It's Time To Put 'Woke' To Sleep”, in Weekend Edition?^[5]
• Elijah C. Watson (2017) , “The Origin Of Woke: How Erykah Badu And Georgia Anne Muldrow Sparked The “Stay Woke” Era”, in okayplayer?^[6]

Anagrams

• Ewok

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English woke.

Pronunciation

Adjective

woke (comparative woker, superlative meest woke or wokest)

1. (slang, often derogatory) woke; holding left-wing views or attitudes, (especially) with regards to social justice issues or to an excessive degree.

   Coordinate term: politiek correct

Usage notes

• As in English, the term is sometimes used positively by people who self-identify with the label.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English wucu, wicu.

Noun

woke

1. Alternative form of weke (“week”)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English w?c, from Proto-West Germanic *waikw, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz. Doublet of weyk.

Alternative forms

• wac, woc, wake, wok, wooc, woake

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??k/
• (Northern ME, Early ME) IPA^(key): /w??k/

Adjective

woke (plural and weak singular woke, comparative wakker, superlative wakkest)

1. Physically weak or feeble; lacking strength or energy:
   1. Weak or feeble due to illness, affliction or aging.
   2. Lacking competency in combat or on the battlefield.
   3. Helpless; lacking power, authority, or control.
   4. (rare) Fruitless, barren (agriculturally unusable).
2. Weak-minded; lacking mental force, power or endurance:
   1. Religiously weak; vulnerable to sin or moral turpitude.
   2. (rare) Fearful, afraid; lacking bravery or courage.
   3. (rare) Unintelligent; lacking intelligence or mental willpower.
   4. (rare) Indecisive (unable to commit or take action).
   5. (rare) Morally suspect or corrupt; selfish.
3. Unimportant, valueless (of little value or import).
4. (rare) Bendable; able to be plied or flexed.

Derived terms

• woclic
• wocnesse
• woken

Descendants

• Scots: wak, wake, waik (conflated with weyk)

References

• “w?k, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-28.

English

Verb

woked

1. past participle of wok