Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - duke
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Duke
duke
I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French duc, from Latin duc-, dux, from ducere to lead — more at tow Date: 12th century 1. a sovereign male ruler of a continental European duchy 2. a nobleman of the highest hereditary rank; especially a member of the highest grade of the British peerage 3. probably from ~s of York, rhyming slang for fork (hand, fist) slang fist, hand — usually used in plural • ~dom noun II. intransitive verb (~d; duking) Date: circa 1947 fight DUKE biographical name Benjamin Newton 1855-1929 & his brother James Buchanan 1856-1925 American tobacco industrialists
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n. (as a title usu. Duke) 1 a a person holding the highest hereditary title of the nobility. b a sovereign prince ruling a duchy or small State. 2 (usu. in pl.) sl. the hand; the fist (put up your dukes!). 3 Bot. a kind of cherry, neither very sweet nor very sour. Phrases and idioms royal duke a duke who is also a royal prince. Etymology: ME f. OF duc f. L dux ducis leader ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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(dukes) A duke is a man with a very high social rank. ...the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. N-COUNT: oft the N of n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 a man with the highest social rank outside the royal family (the Duke of Norfolk) (- see also duchess) 2 dukes old-fashioned fists (Put up your dukes and fight!) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1129, from O.Fr. duc and L. dux (gen. ducis) "leader, commander," in L.L. "governor of a province," from ducere "to lead." Applied in Eng. to "nobleman of the highest rank" probably first c.1350, ousting native earl. Slang sense of "hand" (1874), now mainly in put up your dukes (phrase from 1859), may be a different word. Chapman ["Dictionary of American Slang"] suggests Romany dook "the hand as read in palmistry, one's fate" but Partridge ["Slang To-day and Yesterday"] gives it a plausible, if elaborate, etymology as a contraction of Duke of Yorks, rhyming slang for forks, a Cockney term for "fingers," thus "hands." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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