muke

mu·ke
M3U1K5E1

noun

A kind of tree spirit.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

muke1

nounmuke (plural mukes)

plural mukes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of mook.
    1 more example

    1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0802133517&id=zJs2pCV0kD4C&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=muke&sig=2E7pkTLvarxol5BNZ63Sbxfh9kg Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live this fucking life of a muke, he has got to be sick of it, but he is not a muke, he is a serious guy.

muke2

nounmuke (plural muke)
  1. Chinesehuman sciencesA kind of tree spirit.
    1 more example

    2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0520234081&id=Qyz5I7fi4PQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA93&printsec=8&dq=muke&sig=JY79_rk9YR_usCiystUTxqVr9RQ According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.

Origin

Mandarin, perhaps 木客 (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).

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