duke

See also: Duke and dûke

English

Etymology

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From Old French duc, through Middle English duke, from Latin dux, ducis. Displaced native Old English heretoga. Was present as duc in late Old English, from the same Latin source. Doublet of dux.

The “fist” sense is thought to be Cockney rhyming slang where “Duke(s) of York” = fork. Fork is itself cockney slang for hand, and thus fist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djuːk/, /dʒuːk/
• IPA^(key): /d(j)uːk/

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• Rhymes: -uːk

Noun

duke (plural dukes)

1. The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
2. The sovereign of a small state.
3. A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.

   Hypernyms: title, holder

   Coordinate terms: baron, count, countess, earl, marquis, marquess, viscount, prince, monarch

4. A grand duke.
5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
6. (slang, usually in the plural) A fist.

   Put up your dukes!

7. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (slang) A man who is rich, intelligent, powerful and charming.

Derived terms

terms derived from duke (noun)

• archduke
• dukedom
• duke it out
• Dukes County
• grand duke
• put up one's dukes

 

Related terms

terms related to duke (noun)

• ducal
• duchess

• duchy

Translations

male ruler of a duchy

• Afrikaans: hertog
• Arabic: دُوق m (dūq)
• Armenian: դուքս (hy) (dukʻs)
• Belarusian: ге́рцаг m (hjércah), князь m (knjazʹ)
• Bulgarian: хе́рцог m (hércog), дук m (duk)
• Catalan: duc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公爵 (zh) (gōngjué)

• Czech: vévoda (cs) m
• Dalmatian: ducat m
• Danish: hertug c
• Dutch: hertog (nl) m
• Esperanto: duko (eo)
• Estonian: hertsog (et)
• Faroese: hertogi m
• Finnish: herttua (fi)
• French: duc (fr) m

  Middle French: duc m

  Old French: duc m

• Georgian: ჰერცოგი (hercogi)
• German: Herzog (de) m
• Greek: δούκας (el) m (doúkas)

  Ancient Greek: δούξ (doúx)

• Hawaiian: duke
• Hebrew: דוכס (he) (dukás)
• Hungarian: herceg (hu)
• Icelandic: hertogi m
• Indonesian: adipati (id)
• Irish: diúc (ga) m
• Italian: duca (it) m
• Japanese: 公爵 (ja) (こうしゃく, kōshaku)
• Khmer: ចៅពញា m (chav pnyie), អ្នកឧកញ៉ា (neak ok nha)
• Latgalian: gercogs m
• Latin: dux (la) m
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• Latvian: hercogs
• Limburgish: hertog
• Lithuanian: hercogas m
• Macedonian: војвода m (vojvoda)
• Manx: duic
• Maori: tiuka
• Marathi: ड्यूक (ḍyūka)
• Mongolian: гүн (mn) (gün)
• Manchu: ᡤᡠᠩ (gung)
• Norman: duc m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hertug m

  Nynorsk: hertug m

• Occitan: duc m
• Old Occitan: duc m
• Persian: دوک (fa) (duk)
• Polish: książę (pl) m
• Portuguese: duque (pt) m
• Romanian: duce (ro) m
• Russian: ге́рцог (ru) m (gércog), князь (ru) m (knjazʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: diùc m
• Serbo-Croatian: vojvoda (sh) m, војвода m
• Slovak: vojvoda m
• Slovene: vojvoda (sl) m
• Spanish: duque (es) m
• Swedish: hertig (sv)
• Tagalog: duke
• Thai: , ดุ๊ก (dúk), ดยุก (dà-yúk)
• Turkish: dük (tr)
• Ukrainian: ге́рцог m (hércoh), князь m (knjazʹ)
• Vietnamese: công tước
• Volapük: (♂♀) dük (vo), (♂) hidük, (♀) jidük (vo)
• Walloon: duk (wa) m
• West Frisian: hartoch
• Yiddish: הערצאָג m (hertsog)

male holder of a dukedom

• Ancient Greek: δούξ m (doúx)
• Bulgarian: херцог m (hercog), дук m (duk)
• Catalan: duc (ca)
• Czech: vévoda (cs) m
• Danish: hertug c
• Faroese: hertogi m
• Finnish: herttua (fi)
• Greek: δούκας (el) m (doúkas)
• Hawaiian: duke
• Hungarian: herceg (hu)
• Icelandic: hertogi m
• Indonesian: adipati (id)
• Irish: diúc (ga) m
• Latvian: hercogs m
• Lithuanian: hercogas m
• Macedonian: војвода m (vojvoda)
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• Maori: tiuka
• Marathi: ड्यूक (ḍyūka)
• Norman: duc m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hertug m

  Nynorsk: hertug m

• Portuguese: duque (pt) m
• Romanian: duce (ro) m
• Scottish Gaelic: diùc m
• Slovene: vojvoda (sl) m
• Spanish: duque (es) m
• Thai: ดุ๊ก (dúk), ดยุก (dà-yúk)
• Turkish: dük (tr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) dük (vo), (♂) hidük, (♀) jidük (vo)
• Walloon: duk (wa) m
• Yiddish: הערצאָג m (hertsog)

grand duke

• Bulgarian: велик херцог m (velik hercog)
• Czech: velkovévoda m
• Danish: storhertug c (Luxembourg, German states and Western Europe), storfyrste c (Lithuania, Moscow and tsarist Finland)
• Finnish: suurherttua
• German: Großherzog (de) m
• Greek: μέγας δούκας m (mégas doúkas)
• Irish: ard-diúc m
• Latvian: lielhercogs m, erchercogs m
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• Luxembourgish: Herzog
• Macedonian: велик војвода m (velik vojvoda)
• Manx: ard-duic m
• Norwegian: storhertug m
• Portuguese: grão-duque
• Thai: ดุ๊ก (dúk), ดยุก (dà-yúk)
• Volapük: (♂♀) ledük (vo), (♂) hiledük, (♀) jiledük (vo)

slang: fist

• Bulgarian: юмрук (bg) m (jumruk)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Thai: หมัด (th) (màt)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Breton: ^{(please verify)} dug m pl
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} dux (la) m
• Lithuanian: (1, 2) ^{(please verify)} hercogas m

Verb

1. (transitive, informal) To hit or beat with the fists.
   • 2003, John A. Dinan, Private Eyes in the Comics, →ISBN, page 65:

     It seems that PI Rainer was duked by his wife […] .

2. (slang, transitive) To give cash to; to give a tip to.

   Synonym: tip

   I duked him twenty dollars.

Derived terms

terms derived from duke (verb)

• duke it out
• duke it
• duke out

• duke up
• duke in

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Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdukɛ]

Particle

duke

1. A particle which precedes a participle to form a gerundive adverbial phrase.

   duke kënduar — (while) singing, by singing

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Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish duque (“duke”).

Noun

duke

1. duke

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• duk, duc, duyk, doyk, dug

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French duc, from Latin dux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diu̯k/

Noun

duke (plural dukes)

1. leader, guide, commander, boss
2. noble, lord
3. duke (rank of nobility)

Related terms

• duchesse
• dukedom
• duche

Descendants

• English: duke
• Scots: duik, duke

References

• “dūk (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

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Scots

Verb

duke (third-person singular simple present dukes, present participle dukin, simple past dukit, past participle dukit)

1. to cut into a queue, without permission (intransitive); to cut into a queue in front of someone (transitive)

   Oi, dinnae duke us!

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish duque (“duke”).

Noun

duke

1. duke