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
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principality English
Noun
( principalities)
(obsolete) The state of being a prince or ruler; sovereignty, absolute authority.
A region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 14:
- At this time Russia consisted of a dozen or so principalities , which were frequently at war with one another.
(theology) A spiritual being, specifically in Christian angelology, the fifth level of angels, ranked above powers and below dominions.
See also
* choirs of angels
* dominion
* power
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