Noun: drake
| Singular | drake |
| Plural | drakes |
Sample Sentences
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A drake belonging to a chemist, having drunk water out of a copper vessel which had contained phosphorous, continued its amorous activities until death. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 202:]
Nouns inflected like drake
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet. See: Middle English Nouns '
drake', Old English Nouns '
*draca', Old English Nouns '
*andraca', Dutch Nouns '
draak', German Nouns '
Enterich'.
Verbs referencing "drake"
Portuguese Nouns
dragão, Old Norse Nouns
landreki, Asturian Nouns
draque.