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Zuke vs Muke - What's the difference?

zuke | muke |

As nouns the difference between zuke and muke

is that zuke is (us|slang) zucchini while muke is or muke can be (chinese mythology) a kind of tree spirit.

zuke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, slang) zucchini
  • * 2005 , Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
    • 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.
  • * 2009 , Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy
    • 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
    English clippings

    muke

    English

    Etymology 1

    Cf. moke, mook

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0802133517&id=zJs2pCV0kD4C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=muke&sig=2E7pkTLvarxol5BNZ63Sbxfh9kg]
    • 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)
  • (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]
    • 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.
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