Duke

Noun

 * 1) The male ruler of a duchy (compare duchess).
 * 2) A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
 * 3) A grand duke.
 * 4)  A fist.
 * Put up your dukes!
 * This is thought to be derived from Cockney rhyming slang where Duke(s) of York = Fork. Fork is itself cockney slang for hand, and thus fist.

Derived terms

 * archduke
 * duke it out
 * dukedom
 * grand duke
 * put up one's dukes

Related terms

 * ducal
 * duchess
 * duchy

Verb

 * 1)  To hit or beat with the fists

Adjectives
gracious; mighty; renowned;  comical; fierce; noble; worthless; compassionate; virtuous; fantastical; banished; necessitous; covetous.

Thesaurus
Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood, count, daimio, earl, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

Etymology
From duc:, from  dux:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic: دوق (douq)
 * Armenian: դուքս (duk's)
 * Bulgarian: херцог, дук
 * Catalan: duc
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 * German:
 * Greek: δούκας
 * Ancient Greek:
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 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: adipati
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 公爵


 * Khmer: ចៅពញា
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: herzogs
 * Limburgish:
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 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:,  hidük
 * West Frisian:


 * Ancient Greek:
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Bulgarian: херцог, дук
 * Catalan: duc
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: δούκας
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:


 * Indonesian: adipati
 * Irish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Old French:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:,  hidük


 * Bulgarian: велик херцог
 * Czech:
 * German: Großherzog
 * Greek: μέγας δούκας
 * Irish:


 * Macedonian: велик војвода
 * Manx:
 * Portuguese: grão-duque
 * Volapük: ledük,  hiledük


 * Bulgarian: юмрук


 * : dug -ed
 * : dux
 * : hercogas (1, 2)

Verb

 * 1) to cut into a queue, without permission (intransitive); to cut into a queue in front of someone (transitive)
 * "Oi, dinnae duke us!"