Duke vs Duka - What's the difference?
duke | duka |
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
(Kenya) A shop, store.
*2012 , (Aidan Hartley), ‘Life at One Remove’, Literary Review 404:
*:This series […] was the only interesting reading material you could find on the half-empty shelves of Nairobi dukas that called themselves bookshops but mostly sold school texts and dust-coated magazines.
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As a verb duke
is to plunge, dive.As a noun duka is
(kenya) a shop, store.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.