Drake vs Jake - What's the difference?
drake | jake |
A mayfly used as fishing bait.
A dragon.
* J. A. Harrison
(historical) A small piece of artillery.
* Clarendon
(slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 126:
*:‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake .’
(US) A juvenile male turkey.
* 1998 , Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey Woods
As a proper noun drake
is , notably of (1540-1596).As a noun jake is
collar.As an interjection jake is
come.drake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Derived terms
* ducks and drakes * sheldrakeEtymology 2
From (etyl) and (etyl) Drache.Noun
(en noun)- Beowulf resolves to kill the drake .
- Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes , made them stagger.
Synonyms
* (mayfly) drake flyDerived terms
* earthdrake * firedrake * icedrake * nithedrake] * seadrakeSee also
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Alternative forms
* (l)References
* ----jake
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.