neuk

English

Etymology

See nook.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /njuːk/
  • Rhymes: -uːk
  • Homophone: nuke

Noun

neuk (plural neuks)

  1. (Scotland) A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook] - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917)
  2. (Scotland) A bend (e.g. in a coast) …the fleet, after exploring the harbours, had doubled the East Neuk, passed safely through St Andrews Bay, and entered the Firth of Tay. --Chronicles of Strathearn (1896) - Rev. John Hunter.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch neuken. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hnukjaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɪøk/

Verb

neuk (present neuk, present participle neukende, past participle geneuk)

  1. to push, hit

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nøːk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -øːk

Verb

neuk

  1. first-person singular present indicative of neuken
  2. imperative of neuken

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /něuk/
  • Hyphenation: ne‧uk

Adjective

nèuk (definite nèukī, comparative neukiji, Cyrillic spelling нѐук)

  1. ignorant, uneducated, unschooled

Declension

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