muke

See also: mùkè

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

Chimwiini

Noun

muke class 1 (plural wake)

  1. woman

Antonyms

  • mubli (“man”)

External sources

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. (dialectal, Pontianak) face

Middle English

Adjective

muke

  1. Alternative form of mek

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.

Nage

Noun

muke

  1. Chalcophaps indica, the emerald dove.

References

  • Nage Birds, Gregory L. Forth →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

muke (Cyrillic spelling муке)

  1. genitive singular of muka
  2. nominative plural of muka
  3. vocative plural of muka
  4. accusative plural of muka
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