English Explanatory Dictionary

coke

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
verb
  1. To produce coke from coal.
  2. To turn into coke.
  3. To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
noun
  1. Cocaine.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
  3. Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
noun
  1. Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
  2. A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.
  3. Any soft drink, regardless of type.
name
  1. A surname

Pronunciation

/kəʊk/ /koʊk/ /koʉk/ En-au-coke.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Coke.wav

Word forms

coke coak cokes coking coked

Etymology

The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).

Synonyms

the list at soda

Related words

coking coal coca

Derived words

biocoke coke breeze cokeless cokelike cokeman coke oven gas coker cokery cokeworks coky petroleum coke semicoke coking coking coal decoke decoking coke dick coked up cokehead coke nose coke whore coke bottle coke float go and eat coke Coke's hartebeest Coke hat

Translations

Arabic: كُولَا Armenian: կոլա Chinese Mandarin: 可樂 /可乐 Cornish: kok Czech: kola Danish: cola Dutch: cola Estonian: koka Finnish: kokis French: coca German: Cola German: Coca-Cola Hungarian: kóla Italian: Coca Marathi: कोक Portuguese: coca Russian: ко́ла Scottish Gaelic: còc Serbo-Croatian: кола Serbo-Croatian: kola Spanish: coca Spanish: coke Spanish: Coca-Cola Swedish: cola Swedish: coca Swedish: cokis Thai: โค้ก Ukrainian: ко́ла Vietnamese: coca Welsh: côc Yoruba: kóòkì
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