stuk

From Dutch stuk.

• IPA^(key): /stœk/

stuk (plural stukke, diminutive stukkie)

1. piece, part

• IPA^(key): /stʏk/
• Rhymes: -ʏk

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From Middle Dutch stucke, stuc, from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognate with German Stück, dialectal English steck and borrowed shtick.

stuk n (plural stuks, diminutive stukje n)

1. piece, item (of a thing, kind, ware; often untranslated in English)

   Zijn de peren vers? Geef me daar dan vier stuks van.

   Are the pears fresh? Then give me four of them.

stuk n (plural stukken, diminutive stukje n)

1. piece, part (of a whole)

   Ik snij deze peer in vier stukken.

   I’m cutting this pear in four pieces.

   Synonym: deel

2. play, skit
3. document (especially official)
4. (colloquial) hottie, babe, attractive person (of any gender)

• erfstuk
• hoofdstuk
• kerkstuk
• kopstuk
• lijnstuk

By shortening of the adverbial form aan stuk, now obsolete and superseded by aan stukken (“to pieces”).

stuk (comparative stukker, superlative stukst)

1. broken

• The adjective is used chiefly predicatively. At least colloquially, however, inflected forms are quite common: een stukke wasmachine (“a broken washing machine”), het is stukker dan stuk (“it’s totally ruined”, literally: “more broken than broken”).

• kust