luke
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editAdjective
editluke (not comparable)
- (rare) 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 […]
- Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ “leuk, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Anagrams
editBasque
editPronunciation
editVerb
editluke
- Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, hypothetic consequential indicative form of izan.
Usage notes
editLinguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editRelated to the verb lukke
Noun
editluke f or m (definite singular luka or luken, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)
- a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
- a hatch
- a window (e.g. ticket window)
- a gap, space, slot, opening
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “luke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editRelated to the verb lukke
Noun
editluke f (definite singular luka, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)
- a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
- a hatch
- a window (e.g. ticket window)
- a gap, space, slot, opening
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “luke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Scots
editNoun
editluke (plural lukes)
- Alternative form of luik
Verb
editluke (third-person singular simple present lukes, present participle lukin, simple past lukit, past participle lukit)
- Alternative form of luik
Serbo-Croatian
editNoun
editluke (Cyrillic spelling луке)
- inflection of luka:
Slovene
editNoun
editluke
- inflection of luka:
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