luke

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See also: Luke, lukę, lúke, lûke, and lǚkè

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English leuȝke, leuk, leuke, lewk, lewke, louk, luk, luke, probably from Old English *hlēoc beside hlēow- (whence lew); compare rēoc and rēow, slēac and un-slēaw, etc.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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luke (not comparable)

  1. (lukewarm) lukewarm
    • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:
      Let me have nine penn'orth o' brandy and water luke, and the inkstand, will you, miss?
    • 1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249:
      Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
      cast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself
      in the luke water, and turned from his companions;
      but he died as soon as he touched the water,
      and the warmness was turned into death to him […]
    • 1946, Arthur Kober, That Man is Here Again: The Adventures of a Hollywood Agent, Random House:
      Next thing, I have a confrince with Barry and I tells him, 'Frankly, kid, it don't look any too hot over there at Regal. In fack, very luke.'
    • 1983, C. Darrel Sheraw, Lou Horton, Bill Durbin, The Call Duck Breed Book, page 106:
      Secondly, fresh, preferably luke to warm water must be provided in waterers every day to avoid dehydration, weakening and ‘going light’. […] Warm to luke water is given in waterers as an alternative because all fowl drink more water if it is not excessively cold, […]
    • 2016, Ankur and Vandana Mehrotra, You Can Do It: Find Answers to All Your Questions on How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Now:
      Same time, if you put the other hand in cold water and then in luke water, you will feel luke warm water is hot.

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ leuk, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Anagrams

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Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /luke/ [lu.ke]
  • Rhymes: -uke
  • Hyphenation: lu‧ke

Verb

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luke

  1. Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, hypothetic consequential indicative form of izan.

Usage notes

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Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Related to the verb lukke

Noun

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luke f or m (definite singular luka or luken, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)

  1. a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
  2. a hatch
  3. a window (e.g. ticket window)
  4. a gap, space, slot, opening

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Related to the verb lukke

Noun

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luke f (definite singular luka, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)

  1. a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
  2. a hatch
  3. a window (e.g. ticket window)
  4. a gap, space, slot, opening

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Scots

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Noun

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luke (plural lukes)

  1. Alternative form of luik

Verb

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luke (third-person singular simple present lukes, present participle lukin, simple past lukit, past participle lukit)

  1. Alternative form of luik

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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luke (Cyrillic spelling луке)

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

Slovene

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Noun

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luke

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