different between zuke vs juke

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 […]

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??u?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophones: jook (some senses), duke (with yod coalescence)

Etymology 1

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).

Noun

juke (plural jukes)

1. (Southern US) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
2. Short for jukebox.
   • 2011, Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning

     The juke played five times for a quarter and she never wearied of tapping. Nor did she tire of the same record five times in a row; she was too indolent to select more than one number.

Synonyms

• barrelhouse
• juke house
• juke joint

Translations

Derived terms

• jukebox
• juke joint

Verb

juke (third-person singular simple present jukes, present participle juking, simple past and past participle juked)

1. to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke

Etymology 2

From Jamaican Creole jook.

Verb

juke (third-person singular simple present jukes, present participle juking, simple past and past participle juked)

1. (slang) to hit
2. (prison slang) to stab
   • 2007, Teenager filmed by friend as he stabbed 16-year-old student to death (in Mail Online, 9 February 2007) [1]

     On the internet that night Asghar told a friend: "I'll bang him and then f*** it man, might as well juke [stab] him up tomorrow."

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stab

Alternative forms

• (to stab): jook (/d??k/)

Etymology 3

From Middle English jowken (“bend”)

Verb

juke (third-person singular simple present jukes, present participle juking, simple past and past participle juked)

1. (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer

   Synonym: dummy
2. (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
4. (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
5. (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.

Noun

juke (plural jukes)

1. (sports) A feint.

   Synonym: dummy

2. The neck of a bird.

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