Duke vs Cuke - What's the difference?
duke | cuke |
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.
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(informal) A cucumber
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As a verb duke
is to plunge, dive.As a noun cuke is
small part (of something broken off from a whole).duke
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.
Hypernyms
* nobilityCoordinate terms
* prince, monarch, baron, count, countess, earl, marquess, marquis, viscountDerived terms
* archduke * duke it out * dukedom * grand duke * put up one's dukesVerb
(duk)Derived terms
* duke it out * duke it * duke out * duke up * duke in ----cuke
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
- 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