zuke
English edit
Etymology edit
Shortening. Compare cuke.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
zuke (plural zukes)
- (US, colloquial) Zucchini.
- 2005, Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook:
- But please use tender young squash. The zuke someone overlooked in the garden until it was the size of a rolling pin will be too bitter for this casserole.
- 2009, Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy:
- By the time she was nine, Nina was traveling to distant markets on her own to sell her family's fresh tomatoes, beans, squash, zukes, cukes, peppers […]