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muke

See also: mùkè, and муке

English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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muke (plural mukes)

  1. Alternative form of mook
    • 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps [1]
      Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live this fucking life of a muke, he has got to be sick of it, but he is not a muke, he is a serious guy.

Etymology 2

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Mandarin, perhaps 木客 (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).

Noun

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muke (plural muke)

  1. (Chinese mythology) A kind of tree spirit.
    • 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way [2]
      According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.

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Chimwiini

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Noun

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muke class 1 (plural wake)

  1. woman

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Further reading

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East Futuna

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Verb

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muke

  1. To set a goal.

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muke

  1. A fixed goal.

References

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  • Dictionnaire futunien-français, Claire Moyse-Faurie [3]

Japanese

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Romanization

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muke

  1. Rōmaji transcription of むけ

Malay

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Noun

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muke

  1. (Pontianak) Alternative spelling of muka (“face”)

Manchu

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Romanization

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muke

  1. Romanization of ᠮᡠᡴᡝ

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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muke

  1. Alternative form of mek

Etymology 2

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Noun

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muke

  1. Alternative form of muk
    • 15th c. Robert Henryson, The Cock and the Jasp [4]
      Pietie it wer thow suld ly in this mydding,
      Be buryit thus amang this muke and mold,
      And thow so fair and warth sa mekill gold.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 3

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Verb

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muke

  1. Alternative form of mukken

Nage

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muke

  1. Chalcophaps indica, the emerald dove.

References

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  • Nage Birds, Gregory L. Forth →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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muke (Cyrillic spelling муке)

  1. inflection of muka:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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