See also: púki, puķi, pūķi, pūķī, and пуки

English edit

Noun edit

puki (plural pukis)

  1. A bowl or other dish used by Native Americans in the Southwest as a mold when making pots.
    • 2007, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Figure in Clay, →ISBN, page 80:
      First, I made a puki, a tool used by Native Americans to form a pinch pot. Typically, a puki is a shallow, fired bowl used to keep the bottom of the pinch pot round while holding the entire pot in shape.
    • 2004, Susan Ware, Notable American Women, →ISBN, page 418:
      She began a pot by forming a pancake of clay between her palms and laying it in a bowl-like vessel which was the bottom of a broken pot, called a puki.
  2. Any form or mold used for making clay pots by hand.
    • 2012, Jo-Ann Mapson, Finding Casey, →ISBN, page 268:
      Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.
    • 2008, Deborah Morgenthal, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Penland Book of Ceramics, →ISBN, page 13:
      I begin by pinching a base or rolling out a slab that I place in a plaster form, or puki, for support..

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Asi edit

Noun edit

pukî

  1. (anatomy, euphemistic) vagina

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: pu‧ki

Noun edit

puki

  1. the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina
  2. the tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris)
  3. the boatlily (Tradescantia spathacea)

Finnish edit

Verb edit

puki

  1. third-person singular past indicative of pukea

Anagrams edit

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From the onomatopoeic stem of the verb pukkan (to pop, burst)[1] (compare also pukkad (to burst)), possibly influenced by the onomatopoeic stem of púzik (to fart, childish); with the diminutive -i.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈpuki]
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ki
  • Rhymes: -ki

Noun edit

puki (plural pukik)

  1. (informal, childish, humorous) fart (flatulence)
    Synonyms: szellentés, púzás

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative puki pukik
accusative pukit pukikat
dative pukinak pukiknak
instrumental pukival pukikkal
causal-final pukiért pukikért
translative pukivá pukikká
terminative pukiig pukikig
essive-formal pukiként pukikként
essive-modal
inessive pukiban pukikban
superessive pukin pukikon
adessive pukinál pukiknál
illative pukiba pukikba
sublative pukira pukikra
allative pukihoz pukikhoz
elative pukiból pukikból
delative pukiról pukikról
ablative pukitól pukiktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
pukié pukiké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
pukiéi pukikéi
Possessive forms of puki
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pukim pukijaim
2nd person sing. pukid pukijaid
3rd person sing. pukija pukijai
1st person plural pukink pukijaink
2nd person plural pukitok pukijaitok
3rd person plural pukijuk pukijaik

Derived terms edit

Compound words

References edit

  1. ^ puki in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. →ISBN

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Malay edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayic *puki, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

puki (Jawi spelling ڤوکي, plural puki-puki, informal 1st possessive pukiku, 2nd possessive pukimu, 3rd possessive pukinya)

  1. (vulgar, anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)
    Synonym: faraj

Further reading edit

Pangutaran Sama edit

Noun edit

puki

  1. (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

Sakizaya edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Austronesian *puki.

Noun edit

puki

  1. (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

Tagalog edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: pu‧ki
  • IPA(key): /ˈpuki/, [ˈpu.xɪ]
  • IPA(key): /ˈpukiʔ/, [ˈpu.xɪʔ]

Noun edit

puki or pukì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ)

  1. Alternative form of puke