muke

See also: mùkè, and муке

English

Etymology 1

Noun

muke (plural mukes)

1. Alternative form of mook
   • 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps

     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.

Etymology 2

Mandarin, perhaps 木客 (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).

Noun

muke (plural muke)

1. (Chinese mythology) A kind of tree spirit.
   • 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way

     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.

Anagrams

• Kemu

Chimwiini

Noun

muke class 1 (plural wake)

1. woman

Antonyms

• mubli (“man”)

Further reading

• 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

Verb

muke

1. To set a goal.

Noun

muke

1. A fixed goal.

References

• Dictionnaire futunien-français, Claire Moyse-Faurie

Japanese

Romanization

muke

1. Rōmaji transcription of むけ

Malay

Noun

muke

1. (Pontianak) Alternative spelling of muka (“face”)

Manchu

Romanization

muke

1. Romanization of ᠮᡠᡴᡝ

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

muke

1. Alternative form of mek

Etymology 2

Noun

muke

1. Alternative form of muk
   • 15th c. Robert Henryson, The Cock and the Jasp

     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)

Etymology 3

Verb

muke

1. Alternative form of mukken

Nage

Noun

muke

1. Chalcophaps indica, the emerald dove.

References

• Nage Birds, Gregory L. Forth →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

muke (Cyrillic spelling муке)

1. inflection of muka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural