cuke

American  

[kyook] / kyuk /

noun

Informal.

1. cucumber.

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Etymology

Origin of cuke

First recorded in 1900–05; by shortening and respelling

Example Sentences

But if you’re looking to up your r-cucumber salad game, consider blogger Paula Hingley's recipe which involves pounding those cuke slices.

From Fox News • Jul. 16, 2021

But if one monkey received grapes while the other was rewarded with a mere cuke, conflict arose: “Monkeys who’d been perfectly happy to work for cucumber all of a sudden went on strike.”

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2019

I bane come tomorrow night and cuke the dinner.

From Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Sampson, Emma Speed

By the way, I wonder what became of the beautiful cuke that lay, at the back under the big leaves—we didn’t have it indoors!

From The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap by Wood, Stanley L.

McIlheny: "And are ye the mahn that's after takun' my wife for yer cuke?"

From The Albany Depot : a Farce by Howells, William Dean