cuke

See also: cukë and çukë

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of cucumber.

Noun

cuke (plural cukes)

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

Clipping of cucoloris.

Noun

cuke (plural cukes)

  1. (slang) A cucoloris.

Volapük

Noun

cuke

  1. dative singular of cuk
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