gue

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See also: GUE, Gue, gué, guê, güe, and gu'e

English

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Etymology 1

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Uncertain, perhaps from Old Norse gígja. If so, doublet of gigue.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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gue (plural gues)

  1. (Shetland) A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.

Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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gue (plural gues)

  1. (obsolete) A sharper; a rogue.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Asturian

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Noun

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gue f (plural gues)

  1. the letter g

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Betawi Kota guè (I, me, my), from Hokkien (góa, I, me, my). Doublet of gua.

Pronoun

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gue

  1. (Jakarta, slang) First-person singular pronoun: I, me, my

Synonyms

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Other pronouns with the same meaning used in Jakarta:

Other pronouns with the same meaning used elsewhere: