Muke vs Cuke - What's the difference?
muke | cuke |
* 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0802133517&id=zJs2pCV0kD4C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=muke&sig=2E7pkTLvarxol5BNZ63Sbxfh9kg]
(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]
(informal) A cucumber
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* 2009 , Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy
As nouns the difference between muke and cuke
is that muke is or muke can be (chinese mythology) a kind of tree spirit while cuke is small part (of something broken off from a whole).muke
English
Etymology 1
Cf. moke, mookNoun
(en noun)- 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)- 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.
cuke
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
- 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