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Piked vs Puked - What's the difference?

piked | puked |

As verbs the difference between piked and puked

is that piked is (pike) while puked is (puke).

As an adjective piked

is furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.

piked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed
  • Describing a dive in which the knees are kept straight, but the body is bent at a right-angle at the hips

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (pike)

    • Anagrams

    *

    puked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (puke)

    • puke

    English

    Etymology 1

    1581, first mention is the derivative . More at (l).

    Noun

  • (uncountable) vomit.
  • * 2007', '''', The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the ' puke saber"
    • the puke saber [...] pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"
  • (countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
  • (countable) A worthless, despicable person.
    • Synonyms
    * See * (person) rotter

    Verb

    (puk)
  • (transitive, and, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
  • * 1599 ,
    • At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms
    Synonyms
    * See
    Derived terms
    * puker

    Etymology 2

    (en)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • A fine grade of woolen cloth
    • 1599 ,
  • :* Puke -stocking caddis garter
  • A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

    • References

    * wollencloth: Word Detective * The Universal Dictionary of English, 1896, 4 vols: "Of a dark colour, said to be between black and russet." ----