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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