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duke
1[ dook, dyook ]
noun
- (in Continental Europe) the male ruler of a duchy; the sovereign of a small state.
- a British nobleman holding the highest hereditary title outside the royal family, ranking immediately below a prince and above a marquis; a member of the highest rank of the British peerage.
- a nobleman of corresponding rank in certain other countries.
- a cultivated hybrid of the sweet and sour cherry.
- dukes, Slang. fists; hands:
Put up your dukes.
verb (used with object)
- Slang. to hit or thrash with the fists (sometimes followed by out ): The bully said he was going to duke out anyone who disagreed.
He duked me because he said I had insulted him.
The bully said he was going to duke out anyone who disagreed.
Duke
2[ dook, dyook ]
noun
- Benjamin Newton, 1855鈥1929, and his brother, James Buchanan, 1856鈥1925, U.S. industrialists.
- a male given name.
duke
/ 诲箩耻藧办 /
noun
- a nobleman of high rank: in the British Isles standing above the other grades of the nobility
- the prince or ruler of a small principality or duchy
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of duke1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of duke1
Idioms and Phrases
- duke it out, to fight, especially with the fists; do battle:
The adversaries were prepared to duke it out in the alley.
Example Sentences
Because whatever anyone feels about the duke, he raises interesting questions for the public to ponder.
He continued: "But I concluded having studied the detailed documents I could not say the duke's sense of grievance translated into a legal argument for a challenge to Ravec's decision."
A lawyer for Mr Barrowman said he "at no time... had any business or personal involvement with the duke".
She even offered a homophobic "gay panic" defense, by describing the man as "wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store."
"Instead of outguessing the market, let me make all these thousands or millions of people who are investing work for me. I鈥檓 just going to sit back and let them duke it out," Booth says.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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