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Duke vs Zuke - What's the difference?

duke | zuke |

As a verb duke

is to plunge, dive.

As a noun zuke is

(us|slang) zucchini.

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 ----

    zuke

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) zucchini
  • * 2005 , Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
    • But please use tender young squash. The zuke someone overlooked in the garden until it was the size of a rolling pin will be too bitter for this casserole.
  • * 2009 , Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy
    • 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
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