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Uke vs Ake - What's the difference?

uke | ake |

As a noun uke

is ukulele.

As a verb ake is

an archaic spelling of lang=en.

As an adverb ake is

forever.

As a proper noun Ake is

a Nigerian Plateau language language.

uke

English

Etymology 1

From by shortening.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Ukulele.
    • English clippings

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
  • (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
  • * 2008 , Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 142:
    • Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.
  • * 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:
    • You'd rather have Sebas be an uke ?
  • * 2010 , Kyoka Wakatsuki, "Afterword", in The Selfish Demon King , Digital Manga Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781569701324, unnumbered page:
    • Shizuku is so, so, so'' cute! I love him as an ''uke so much I can't stand it!
  • *
    • Antonyms
    * seme ----

    ake

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • * ... for let our finger ake , / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909
    • , year_published=2004 , edition=text , editor= , author=Henry C. Shelley , title=Inns and Taverns of Old London , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake " to listen to their mad talk. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2015 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=LT Wolf , title=The World King , chapter= , url= , genre=fiction , publisher= , isbn=978-1-312-37454-6 , page= , passage=The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle. }}

    Etymology 2

    (etyl).

    Adverb

    (-)
  • forever

    • Anagrams

    * ----