muke
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
muke (plural mukes)
- 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.
- 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps [1]
Etymology 2 edit
Mandarin, perhaps 木客 (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).
Noun edit
muke (plural muke)
- (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.
- 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way [2]
Anagrams edit
Chimwiini edit
Noun edit
muke class 1 (plural wake)
Antonyms edit
- mubli (“man”)
Further reading edit
- Larry M. Hyman, Suffix ordering in Bantu, in Yearbook of Morphology 2002, edited by Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle, page 259
- An introduction to African linguistics (2000), citing Kenstowicz & Kisseberth 1979
East Futuna edit
Verb edit
muke
- To set a goal.
Noun edit
muke
- A fixed goal.
References edit
- Dictionnaire futunien-français, Claire Moyse-Faurie [3]
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
muke
Malay edit
Noun edit
muke
Manchu edit
Romanization edit
muke
- Romanization of ᠮᡠᡴᡝ
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
muke
- Alternative form of mek
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
muke
- 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)
- 15th c. Robert Henryson, The Cock and the Jasp [4]
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
muke
- Alternative form of mukken
Nage edit
Noun edit
muke
References edit
- Nage Birds, Gregory L. Forth →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
muke (Cyrillic spelling муке)
- inflection of muka: