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English
Etymology 1
Noun
muke (plural mukes)
- 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)
- (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)
- woman
Antonyms
Further reading
East Futuna
Verb
muke
- To set a goal.
Noun
muke
- A fixed goal.
References
- Dictionnaire futunien-français, Claire Moyse-Faurie
Japanese
Romanization
muke
- Rōmaji transcription of むけ
Malay
Noun
muke
- (Pontianak) Alternative spelling of muka (“face”)
Manchu
Romanization
muke
- Romanization of ᠮᡠᡴᡝ
Middle English
Etymology 1
Adjective
muke
- Alternative form of mek
Etymology 2
Noun
muke
- 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
- Alternative form of mukken
Nage
Noun
muke
- Chalcophaps indica, the emerald dove.
References
- Nage Birds, Gregory L. Forth →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
muke (Cyrillic spelling муке)
- inflection of muka:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural