stuk

From Dutch stuk.

• IPA^(key): /stœk/

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stuk (plural stukke, diminutive stukkie)

1. A piece, part.

• IPA^(key): /stʏk/

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• Hyphenation: stuk
• Rhymes: -ʏk

From Middle Dutch stucke, stuc, from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognate with German Stück, dialectal English steck and borrowed shtick. Doublet of stuc.

stuk n (plural stukken, diminutive stukje n)

1. a piece, part, share (of a whole)

   Ik snij deze peer in vier stukken. ― I’m cutting this pear in four pieces.

   Synonym: deel

2. a theatrical piece, play, skit
3. a document (especially official)
4. (board games) a playing piece
   1. (chess) a piece, one of the playing pieces in chess usually excluding pawns
5. (colloquial) a hottie, babe, attractive person (of any gender)

• Negerhollands: stuk, stek, stik, steki, stiki, teki
• Skepi Creole Dutch: steki (from the diminutive)

stuk n (plural stuks, diminutive stukje n)

1. a piece, one (countable), an item (of a thing, kind, ware; often untranslated in English)

   Zijn de peren vers? Geef me daar dan vier stuks van.

   Are the pears fresh? Then give me four of them.

By shortening of the adverbial form aan stuk, now obsolete and superseded by aan stukken (“to pieces”).

stuk (comparative stukker, superlative stukst)

1. broken, rendered useless; out of order

   Synonyms: kapot, kaduuk, defect

• The adjective is used chiefly predicatively. At least colloquially, however, inflected forms are quite common: een stukke wasmachine (“a broken washing machine”), het is stukker dan stuk (“it’s totally ruined”, literally: “more broken than broken”).

• kust

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stukъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuk/

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• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: stuk
• Homophone: stóg

stuk m inan

1. knock

   Synonym: stukot

stuk

1. (colloquial) knock!

   Synonym: puk

• stuk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stuk in Polish dictionaries at PWN