gucke

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gucke

1. inflection of gucken:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• kuke (Wiesemann spelling)

From Middle High German gücken.^[1]

Cognate with German gucken, Luxembourgish kucken and Pennsylvania German gucken.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkukə/
• Rhymes: -ukə
• Syllabification: guc‧ke

gucke [with accusative]

1. to see; to look

   guck mol! ― look!

   schepp gucke ― to give a dirty look (literally, “to look crookedly”)

   • 2022 November, Naye Testamënt Tswaayxproochich [Bilingual New Testament], Barueri: Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil, →ISBN, Markus 6:38:

     Yeesus hot kefroot: — Wii fiil proot het teyer? Keet kuke. Ti tisiple sin kuke kang un saate: — Meyer hon finef proot un tswaay fix.

     Jesus asked: “How many loaves do you have? Go look”. The Disciples went looking and said: “We have five loaves and two fish”.

2. to watch
   • 2021, Piter Kehoma Boll, “gucke”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 71, column 1:

     Ich gucke Tëlevisong.

     I watch TV.

Compare German gucken.

gucke

1. to look
2. to appear
3. to stare