peke
noun
ˈpēk 
often capitalized
: pekingese sense 2
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web There’s a legend that the peke was born when Buddha shrunk a lion to the size of a dog. 
Kevin Fisher-paulson, SFChronicle.com, 13 Oct. 2020 Odder still is the inclusion of a kidney transplant—from one human to another, regrettably, rather than from, say, wolfhound to peke. John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2018
Kevin Fisher-paulson, SFChronicle.com, 13 Oct. 2020 Odder still is the inclusion of a kidney transplant—from one human to another, regrettably, rather than from, say, wolfhound to peke. John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2018 Word History
First Known Use
1910, in the meaning defined above
- magnetic blowout
- magnetic bottle
- magnetic brake
- magnetic bubble
- magnetic chart
- magnetic chuck
- magnetic circuit
- magnetic clutch
- magnetic compass
- magnetic controller
- magnetic cooling
- magnetic core
- magnetic course
- magnetic cutter
- magnetic damping
- magnetic declination
- magnetic deviation
- magnetic dip
- magnetic disk
- magnetic elements
- magnetic equator
- magnetic field
- magnetic fluid
- magnetic fluid clutch
- magnetic flux