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oke

oke is the simple past of ache.

oke is the simple past of ake.

oke is the alternative form of oka.

oke is the obsolete spelling of oak.

Meaning of ache

Verb

ache (third-person singular simple present aches, present participle aching, simple past ached or (obsolete) oke, past participle ached or (obsolete) oke or (obsolete) aken)

  1. (intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
    • My feet were aching for days after the marathon.
  2. (literary, rare, transitive) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

See all 6 meanings of ache

Meaning of ake

Noun

ake (plural akes)

  1. (Cornwall, obsolete) The groove made in a stone forming part of a killock.
    • 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 […]1913, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror (volume 3, page 300)

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Noun

oke (plural okes)

  1. (South Africa, slang) Man; guy; bloke.
    • An oke meets up with his ex-wife at a party. After a few dops, he puts his arm around her and suggests they go to bed. 'Over my dead body,' she snarls at him. He downs his drink and says, 'I see you haven't changed.'1998, Leon Schuster, Leon Schuster's Lekker, Thick South African Joke Book, page 106
    • I had initiated an African ritual by giving the pipe to him. And you can never stay befuck with an oke you smoke nchangu with.2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex

Forms of oke

pluralokes

Origin of oke

See oka

Shortened borrowing from Afrikaans outjie.

Inherited from Middle English oke.

Words that rhyme with oke

42 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about oke

What does oke mean?
Oke means man; guy; bloke.
What is oke the simple past of?
Oke is the simple past of ache.
What part of speech is oke?
Oke is a noun.
What is the plural of oke?
The plural of oke is okes.

Words near oke in the dictionary

  1. OKBs
  2. OKC
  3. OkCupider
  4. OkCupiders
  5. OKDK
  6. oke
  7. Okeanos
  8. OKed
  9. Okeden
  10. Okeechobee
  11. Okeechobee County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oke (page history and authors); ache (page history and authors); ake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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