luke

From Middle English leuȝke, leuk, leuke, lewk, lewke, louk, luk, luke, probably from Old English *hlēoc beside hlēow- (whence lew); compare rēoc and rēow, slēac and unslēaw, etc.^[1]

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

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.

• leku, leuk-, Leuk

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

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)

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

luke

1. lotus

   Synonym: tukal

luke

1. alternative form of loken

Related to the verb lukke

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

• bakluke
• takluke

• “luke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• lokko, lukku (Trøndelag)

Related to the verb lukke

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

• bakluke
• likluke
• takluke

• “luke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

luke (plural lukes)

1. alternative form of luik

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

1. alternative form of luik

luke (Cyrillic spelling луке)

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

luke

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