puki

See also: púki, puķi, pūķi, pūķī, and пуки

English

Noun

puki (plural pukis)

1. A bowl or other dish used by Native Americans in the Southwest as a mold when making pots.
   • 2007, ‎Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Figure in Clay, →ISBN, page 80:

     First, I made a puki, a tool used by Native Americans to form a pinch pot. Typically, a puki is a shallow, fired bowl used to keep the bottom of the pinch pot round while holding the entire pot in shape.

   • 2004, Susan Ware, Notable American Women, →ISBN, page 418:

     She began a pot by forming a pancake of clay between her palms and laying it in a bowl-like vessel which was the bottom of a broken pot, called a puki.

2. Any form or mold used for making clay pots by hand.
   • 2012, Jo-Ann Mapson, Finding Casey, →ISBN, page 268:

     Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.

   • 2008, ‎‎Deborah Morgenthal & ‎Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Penland Book of Ceramics, →ISBN, page 13:

     I begin by pinching a base or rolling out a slab that I place in a plaster form, or puki, for support..

Anagrams

• UKIP, kipu

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Asi

Noun

pukî

1. (anatomy, euphemistic) vagina

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu‧ki

Noun

puki

1. the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina
2. the tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris)
3. the boatlily ()

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Finnish

Verb

puki

1. (deprecated template usage) third-person singular past indicative of pukea

Anagrams

• kipu

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Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *puki, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puki/
• Rhymes: -uki, -ki, -i

Noun

puki

1. (vulgar, anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

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Pangutaran Sama

Noun

puki

1. (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• puke

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

Noun

puki

1. (anatomy) vulva

Synonyms

• kiki