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duke
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n 1: a British peer of the highest rank
2: a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank
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fluke
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n 1: a stroke of luck [syn: good luck, fluke, good
fortune]
2: a barb on a harpoon or arrow
3: flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor [syn:
fluke, flue]
4: either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean
5: parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to
a host [syn: fluke, trematode, trematode worm]
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gook
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n 1: any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge, slime, goo,
goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze]
2: (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially
for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War) [syn:
gook, slant-eye]
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juke
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n 1: a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United
States where you can eat and drink and dance to music
provided by a jukebox [syn: juke, jook, juke joint,
jook joint, juke house, jook house]
2: (football) a deceptive move made by a football player [syn:
juke, fake]
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kook
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n 1: someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out
from a group [syn: kook, odd fellow, odd fish, queer
bird, queer duck, odd man out]
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nuke
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n 1: the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
[syn: atomic warhead, nuclear warhead, thermonuclear
warhead, nuke]
v 1: strike at with firepower or bombs; "zap the enemy" [syn:
nuke, atomize, atomise, zap]
2: bomb with atomic weapons [syn: atom-bomb, nuke]
3: cook or heat in a microwave oven; "You can microwave the
leftovers" [syn: microwave, micro-cook, zap, nuke]
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puke
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n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the
bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
2: the matter ejected in vomiting [syn: vomit, vomitus,
puke, barf]
v 1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave
him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
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rebuke
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n 1: an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to
take the rebuke with a smile on his face" [syn: rebuke,
reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand]
v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for
bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to
task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture,
reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold,
chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out,
chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
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spook
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n 1: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: creep,
weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook]
2: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he
looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from
his past" [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith,
specter, spectre]
v 1: frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action;
"The noise spooked the horse"
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luke
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n 1: (New Testament) the Apostle closely associated with St.
Paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the
third Gospel [syn: Luke, Saint Luke, St. Luke]
2: one of the four Gospels in the New Testament; contains
details of Jesus's birth and early life [syn: Luke, Gospel
of Luke, Gospel According to Luke]
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snook
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n 1: large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and
brackish waters; resemble pike
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souk
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n 1: an open-air market in an Arabian city
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wouk
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n 1: United States writer (born in 1915) [syn: Wouk, Herman
Wouk]
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baruch
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n 1: economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965)
[syn: Baruch, Bernard Baruch, Bernard Mannes Baruch]
2: a disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah
3: an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch [syn: Baruch, Book
of Baruch]
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dubuque
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n 1: a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River
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chook
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boock
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duque
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fuke
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glueck
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hoock
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kueck
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leuck
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louque
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luc
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luecke
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luick
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luque
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muecke
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spruik
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steuck
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stook
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stueck
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tuk
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tuque
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dziuk
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farouk
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lachenbruch
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flook
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