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Definition shake
Etymology
From Middle English schaken, from Old English s?eacan, s?acan (“to shake”). from Proto-Germanic *skakan? (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”). Cognate with Scots schake, schack (“to shake”), West Frisian schaekje (“to shake”), Dutch schaken (“to elope, make clean, shake”), Low German schaken (“to move, shift, push, shake”) and schacken (“to shake, shock”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian ???????? (skakát?, “to jump”). More at shock.
Verb
shake (third-person singular simple present shakes, present participle shaking, simple past shook or (rare) shaked, past participle shaken or (dialectal) shook)
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
Noun
shake (plural shakes)
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A milkshake.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (Britain, dialectal) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
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