archduke | (noun) a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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cuke | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cucumber |
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duke | (noun) a British peer of the highest rank | - |
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(noun) a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank | - |
fluke | (noun) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host | Synonyms: trematode, trematode worm |
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(noun) either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean | - |
(noun) flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor | Synonyms: flue |
(noun) a barb on a harpoon or arrow | - |
(noun) a stroke of luck | Synonyms: good fortune, good luck |
juke | (noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: fake |
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(noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook, jook house, jook joint, juke house, juke joint |
nuke | (noun) the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb | Synonyms: atomic warhead, nuclear warhead, thermonuclear warhead |
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(verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, microwave, zap |
(verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, atomize, zap |
(verb) bomb with atomic weapons | Synonyms: atom-bomb |
peruke | (noun) a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: periwig |
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puke | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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(noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: barf, vomit, vomitus |
(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
rebuke | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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(verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
uke | (noun) a small guitar having four strings | Synonyms: ukulele |
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