uke

See also: Uke, ūke, and Üke

English

Etymology 1

From ukulele (“small four-string guitar”) by shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːk/

Noun

uke (plural ukes)

1. (informal) Ukulele.

Etymology 2

From Japanese 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːke/

Noun

uke (plural ukes or uke)

1. (judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
2. (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
   • 2008, Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 142:

     Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

   • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:

     You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

   • 2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, "Afterword", in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781569701324, unnumbered page:

     Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:uke.

Antonyms

• seme

Anagrams

• Kue

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Japanese

Romanization

uke

1. Rōmaji transcription of うけ

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weig-, *weik- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Noun

uke f, m (definite singular uka or uken, indefinite plural uker, definite plural ukene)

1. a week

Derived terms

• arbeidsuke
• ukeavis
• ukelang
• ukentlig

See also

• veke (Nynorsk)

References

• “uke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.