uke

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See also: Uke, ūke, and Üke

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /juːk/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːk

Noun

uke (plural ukes)

  1. (informal) Clipping of ukulele.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Japanese 受け (uke), derived from the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Pronunciation

Noun

uke (plural ukes or uke)

  1. (judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
  2. (Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
    Antonym: seme
    • 2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:
      Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.
    • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek‎, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012isbn=9780316221801:
      You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?
    • 2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King‎, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN:
      Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

uke

  1. Rōmaji transcription of うけ

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish uge, from Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Noun

uke f or m (definite singular uka or uken, indefinite plural uker, definite plural ukene)

  1. a week

Derived terms

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References

Swahili

Etymology

From u- +‎ mke.

Pronunciation

Noun

uke (u class, no plural)

  1. womanhood
    Antonym: uume
  2. (euphemistic) vulva, vagina
    Synonym: kuma
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