luke

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  1. Slightly warm; lukewarm; tepid. If it be coole in heete and luke in colde, The better may thowe with that water holde. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 3. Let me have nine penn'orth o' brandy and water luke. Dickens, Pickwick, xxxiii.
  2. A Middle English or dialectal form of look.

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  1. from Middle English luke, leuke, lewke (= Dutch leuk- in leukwarm = English lukewarm), apparently an unexplained variant or extension of lew, warm (see lew); perhaps due to confusion with Anglo-Saxon wlæc, tepid. The history and connections have not been cleared up.
 

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