uke
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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Noun[edit]
uke (plural ukes)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Japanese 受け (uke), derived from the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
uke (plural ukes or uke)
- (judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
- (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, 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, unnumbered page:
- You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?
- 2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, "Afterword", in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:uke.
- 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, page 142:
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uke
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).
Noun[edit]
uke f or m (definite singular uka or uken, indefinite plural uker, definite plural ukene)
- a week
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- veke (Nynorsk)
References[edit]
- “uke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Swahili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
uke (u class, no plural)
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