beduke

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verb

To make a duke.

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Meanings

verbbeduke (third-person singular simple present bedukes, present participle beduking, simple past and past participle beduked)

present singular third person bedukes · participle present beduking · participle past beduked · past beduked

  1. transitiveTo make a duke.

    I could name (reverently) a dozen illustrious men abundantly dowered with intellectual poverty, anyone of whom could beduke and enrich the obscurest ignobleman in the fierce democracy of letters by merely blaring abroad the praise of his books.

    1905, Cosmopolitan, volume 40, page 360
  2. reflexiveTo behave or dress as a duke.

    Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge.

    1911, Ambrose Bierce, “resplendent”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC

Origin

From be- + duke.

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Chicago

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