ake
/ɑːˈkeɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.61 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "... for let our finger ake, / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622"
- "And that thing made of ſound and ſhovv / VVhich mortals have miſnamed A Beau, / (But in the language of the ſky / Is call'd a tvvolegg'd butterfly) / VVill make your very heartſtrings ake / VVith loud and everlaſting clack, […]"
- "instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake" to listen to their mad talk."
- "The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle."
- "Returning with the timber portions of his anchor, to the stone, he would assemble all together […] The ake would be the slightly hollowed part of the stone that fitted closely to the sides […]"
- "The answer given was : — " Friends, this is the reply of the Maori : we shall fight on ake, ake, ake, for ever, for ever, for ever.""
Etymology
From Middle English aken, from Old English acan (“to ache”), from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”). More at ache.
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Synonyms
Aike