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Broke vs Booke - What's the difference?

broke | booke |

As verbs the difference between broke and booke

is that broke is (break) or broke can be to broker; to transact business for another while booke is .

As an adjective broke

is (informal) lacking money; bankrupt.

As a noun broke

is (papermaking) paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

broke

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Lacking money; bankrupt
  • (informal) Broken.

    • Synonyms

    * boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
  • *1880 , James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper , page 12:
  • *:If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.
  • *1914 , The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 62 , page 204:
  • *:Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.
  • *2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood, NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co. :
  • *:These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (break)
  • (archaic, or, poetic)
  • * 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama , season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
    • Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.
  • # (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
  • He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.

    • Verb

    (brok)
  • To broker; to transact business for another.
    • (Brome)
  • (obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
  • * Fanshawe
    • We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.

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    * English irregular simple past forms

    booke

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1592, author=R. G., title=The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=TO ALL SVCH AS HAVE receiued either pleasure or profite by the two former published bookes of this Argument: And to all beside, that desire to know the wonderfull slie deuises of this hellish crew of Conny-catchers. ] }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Scene 10: Enter five or sixe Protestants with bookes , and kneele together. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1606, author=Anonymous, title=A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III, chapter=Sir Gyles Goosecappe, edition= citation
    • , passage=Now in good truth I wood theis bookes were burnd That rapp men from their friends before their time, How does my uncles friend, no other name I need give him, to whom I give my selfe. }}

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