uke
English
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /juːk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːk
Noun
edituke (plural ukes)
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Japanese 受け (uke), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈuːke/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːke
Noun
edituke (plural ukes or uke)
- (judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
- (Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
- Antonym: seme
- 2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:
- Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.
Anagrams
editJapanese
editRomanization
edituke
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Danish uge, from Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).
Noun
edituke f or m (definite singular uka or uken, indefinite plural uker, definite plural ukene)
- a week
Derived terms
editSee also
edit- veke (Nynorsk)
References
edit- “uke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Swahili
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
edituke class XI (no plural)
- womanhood
- Antonym: uume
- (euphemistic) vulva, vagina
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:uke
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