different between zuke vs luke
zuke
English
Etymology
Shortening. Compare cuke.
Pronunciation
Noun
zuke (plural zukes)
- (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 […]
- 2005, Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
zuke From the web:
luke
English
Etymology
Back-formation from lukewarm. Compare lew.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lu?k/
- Rhymes: -u?k
Adjective
luke (not comparable)
- (rare) lukewarm
- 1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249:
- Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
cast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself
in the luke water, and turned from his companions;
but he died as soon as he touched the water,
and the warmness was turned into death to him […]
- Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
- 1983, C. Darrel Sheraw, Lou Horton, and Bill Durbin, The Call Duck Breed Book, page 106:
- Secondly, fresh, preferably luke to warm water must be provided in waterers every day to avoid dehydration, weakening and ‘going light’. […] Warm to luke water is given in waterers as an alternative because all fowl drink more water if it is not excessively cold, […]
- 2016, Ankur and Vandana Mehrotra, You Can Do It: Find Answers to All Your Questions on How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Now:
- Same time, if you put the other hand in cold water and then in luke water, you will feel luke warm water is hot.
- 1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249:
Anagrams
- leku, leuk-
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Related to the verb lukke
Noun
luke f or m (definite singular luka or luken, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)
- a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
- a hatch
- a window (e.g. ticket window)
- a gap, space, slot, opening
Derived terms
- bakluke
- takluke
References
- “luke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Related to the verb lukke
Noun
luke f (definite singular luka, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)
- a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
- a hatch
- a window (e.g. ticket window)
- a gap, space, slot, opening
Derived terms
- bakluke
- takluke
References
- “luke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Scots
Noun
luke (plural lukes)
- Alternative form of luik
Verb
luke (third-person singular present lukes, present participle lukin, past lukit, past participle lukit)
- Alternative form of luik
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
luke (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- inflection of luka:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Slovene
Noun
luke
- inflection of luka:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative plural
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