beduke

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English

Etymology

be- +‎ duke

Verb

beduke (third-person singular simple present bedukes, present participle beduking, simple past and past participle beduked)

  1. (transitive) To make a duke.
    • 1905, Cosmopolitan, volume 40, page 360:
      I could name (reverently) a dozen illustrious men abundantly dowered with intellectual poverty, anyone of whom could beduke and enrich the obscurest ignobleman in the fierce democracy of letters by merely blaring abroad the praise of his books.
  2. (reflexive) To behave or dress as a duke.