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Jake vs Ake - What's the difference?

jake | ake |

As a noun jake

is collar.

As an interjection jake

is come.

As a proper noun ake is

a nigerian language.

jake

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
  • *1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 126:
  • *:‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake .’

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A juvenile male turkey.
  • * 1998 , Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey Woods
    • The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.

    ake

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • * ... for let our finger ake , / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909
    • , year_published=2004 , edition=text , editor= , author=Henry C. Shelley , title=Inns and Taverns of Old London , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake " to listen to their mad talk. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2015 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=LT Wolf , title=The World King , chapter= , url= , genre=fiction , publisher= , isbn=978-1-312-37454-6 , page= , passage=The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle. }}

    Etymology 2

    (etyl).

    Adverb

    (-)
  • forever

    • Anagrams

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