Zuke vs Cuke - What's the difference?
zuke | cuke |
(US, slang) zucchini
* 2005 , Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
* 2009 , Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy
(informal) A cucumber
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 2, author=Anne Raver, title=Nature Red in Tooth, Claw and Carapace, work=New York Times
, passage=I finally figured out what is mating on my cukes : squash bugs. }}
* 2009 , Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy
As nouns the difference between zuke and cuke
is that zuke is (us|slang) zucchini while cuke is small part (of something broken off from a whole).zuke
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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
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