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duke | muke |

As a verb duke

is to plunge, dive.

As a noun muke is

or muke can be (chinese mythology) a kind of tree spirit.

duke

English

(wikipedia duke)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • 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

    * nobility

    Coordinate terms

    * prince, monarch, baron, count, countess, earl, marquess, marquis, viscount

    Derived terms

    * archduke * duke it out * dukedom * grand duke * put up one's dukes

    Related terms

    * ducal * duchess * duchy

    Verb

    (duk)
  • 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

    Derived terms

    * duke it out * duke it * duke out * duke up * duke in ----

    muke

    English

    Etymology 1

    Cf. moke, mook

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0802133517&id=zJs2pCV0kD4C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=muke&sig=2E7pkTLvarxol5BNZ63Sbxfh9kg]
    • Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live this fucking life of a muke', he has got to be sick of it, but he is not a ' muke , he is a serious guy.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl), perhaps .

    Noun

    (muke)
  • (Chinese mythology) A kind of tree spirit.
  • * 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0520234081&id=Qyz5I7fi4PQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA93&printsec=8&dq=muke&sig=JY79_rk9YR_usCiystUTxqVr9RQ]
    • According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang,'' the ''muke'''/shanzao'' likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling ''shandu'' and '''''muke'' both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ''ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.
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