luke

See also: Appendix:Variations of "luke"

English

Etymology

From Middle English leuȝke, leuk, leuke, lewk, lewke, louk, luk, luke, lheuc, probably from Old English *hlēoc beside hlēow- (whence lew); compare rēoc and rēow, slēac and unslēaw, etc. Alternatively, perhaps from a verb, Old English *hlēowcian, *hlīewcian (“to make tepid or lukewarm”), whence possibly Middle English leuken (“to make lukewarm”). Compare also Dutch leuk (“lukewarm”), West Frisian lûk (“sly, clever”), Low German luuk (“lively, cheerful", also "lukewarm, dull, indifferent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l(j)uːk/, /lɪu̯k/
• Rhymes: -uːk

Adjective

luke (not comparable)

1. lukewarm
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:

     Let me have nine penn'orth o' brandy and water luke, and the inkstand, will you, miss?

   • 1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249:

     Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
     cast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself
     in the luke water, and turned from his companions;
     but he died as soon as he touched the water,
     and the warmness was turned into death to him […]

   • 1946, Arthur Kober, That Man is Here Again: The Adventures of a Hollywood Agent, Random House:

     Next thing, I have a confrince with Barry and I tells him, 'Frankly, kid, it don't look any too hot over there at Regal. In fack, very luke.'

   • 1983, C. Darrel Sheraw, Lou Horton, Bill Durbin, The Call Duck Breed Book, page 106:

     Secondly, fresh, preferably luke to warm water must be provided in waterers every day to avoid dehydration, weakening and ‘going light’. […] Warm to luke water is given in waterers as an alternative because all fowl drink more water if it is not excessively cold, […]

   • 2016, Ankur and Vandana Mehrotra, You Can Do It: Find Answers to All Your Questions on How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Now:

     Same time, if you put the other hand in cold water and then in luke water, you will feel luke warm water is hot.

Derived terms

• lukecold
• lukehot
• lukeness
• lukewarm

Anagrams

• leku, leuk-, Leuk

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luke/ [lu.ke]
• Rhymes: -uke, -e
• Hyphenation: lu‧ke

Verb

luke (masculine allocutive likek, feminine allocutive liken)

1. third-person singular, with third-person singular direct object, hypothetic consequential indicative of izan (“to have”, transitive auxiliary)

Kapampangan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʊˈke/ [lʊˈxɛ]
• Hyphenation: lu‧ke

Noun

luke

1. lotus

   Synonym: tukal

Middle English

Verb

luke

1. alternative form of loken

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to the verb lukke

Noun

luke f or m (definite singular luka or luken, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)

1. a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
2. a hatch
3. a window (e.g. ticket window)
4. a gap, space, slot, opening

Derived terms

• bakluke
• takluke

References

• “luke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lokko, lukku (Trøndelag)

Etymology

From Middle Low German lûke. Related to the verb lukke.

Noun

luke f (definite singular luka, indefinite plural luker, definite plural lukene)

1. a small door (including on an Advent calendar)
2. a hatch
3. a window (e.g. ticket window)
4. a gap, space, slot, opening

Derived terms

• bakluke
• likluke
• takluke

References

• “luke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scots

Noun

luke (plural lukes)

1. alternative form of luik

Verb

luke (third-person singular simple present lukes, present participle lukin, simple past and past participle lukit)

1. alternative form of luik

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

luke (Cyrillic spelling луке)

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

Slovene

Noun

luke

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