koek

From Dutch koek.

• IPA^(key): /kuk/

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koek (plural koeke)

1. cake
2. tangle of hair
3. vulva (slang)

• → Sotho: kuku

From Middle Dutch coeke, from Old Dutch *kuoko, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô. Doublet of quiche.

• IPA^(key): /kuk/

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• Hyphenation: koek
• Rhymes: -uk

koek m (plural koeken, diminutive koekje n)

1. cookie, cake, biscuit, wafer
2. (uncountable) Any type of cake or biscuit.
3. (by extension) something doughy or sticky
4. (heraldry) roundel

• Afrikaans: koek
  • → Sotho: kuku
• Berbice Creole Dutch: kuku
• Jersey Dutch: kuk
• → Sranan Tongo: kuku
  • → Lokono: kuku
  • → Aukan: kuku
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: kuku
  • → Caribbean Javanese: kuku
  • → Kwinti: kúku
  • → Saramaccan: kúku

• koke

From Old Frisian kōke, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô.

koek c (plural koeken, diminutive koekje)

1. (countable) cake

   Synonym: koeke

2. (in the diminutive) cookie

• “koeke (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011