cuke

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See also: cukë and çukë

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Clipping of cucumber.

Noun[edit]

cuke (plural cukes)

  1. (informal) A cucumber.
    • 2007 August 2, Anne Raver, “Nature Red in Tooth, Claw and Carapace”, in New York Times[1]:
      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:
      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 []

Etymology 2[edit]

Clipping of cucoloris.

Noun[edit]

cuke (plural cukes)

  1. (slang) A cucoloris.

Volapük[edit]

Noun[edit]

cuke

  1. dative singular of cuk