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duke | uke |

As a verb duke

is to plunge, dive.

As a proper noun uke is

.

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 ----

    uke

    English

    Etymology 1

    From by shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Ukulele.
    • English clippings

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
  • (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
  • * 2008 , Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 142:
    • Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.
  • * 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:
    • You'd rather have Sebas be an uke ?
  • * 2010 , Kyoka Wakatsuki, "Afterword", in The Selfish Demon King , Digital Manga Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781569701324, unnumbered page:
    • Shizuku is so, so, so'' cute! I love him as an ''uke so much I can't stand it!
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