Doge vs Duke - What's the difference?
doge | duke |
(historical) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
* 1797 , , A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States , page 62
* 1982 , , A History of Venice , chapter 34, page 346
The male ruler of a duchy (compare duchess ).
A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
A grand duke.
(slang, usually in plural) A fist.
To hit or beat with the fists.
* {{quote-book, 2003, John A. Dinan, Private Eyes in the Comics, isbn=159393002X, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=7vvAzXjtBAcC&pg=PA65, page=65
, passage=It seems that PI Rainer was duked by his wife
As nouns the difference between doge and duke
is that doge is the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa while duke is the male ruler of a duchy (compare duchess).As a verb duke is
to hit or beat with the fists.As a proper noun Duke is
the title of a duke.doge
English
(wikipedia doge)Alternative forms
* DogeNoun
(en-noun)- In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge , by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.
- This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "doge")Derived terms
* dogedom * dogeless * dogeshipduke
English
(wikipedia duke)Noun
(en noun)- Put up your dukes !
- This is thought to be derived from where Duke(s) of York = Fork. Fork is itself cockney slang for hand, and thus fist.