beduke

To make a duke.

Verb

  1. To make a duke.
    • I could name (reverently) a dozen illustrious men abundantly dowered with intellectual poverty, anyone of whom could beduke and enrich the obscurest ignobleman in the fierce democracy of letters by merely blaring abroad...
  2. To behave or dress as a duke.
    • Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge. - 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “resplendent”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:

Origin

From be- + duke.

Forms

bedukes beduking beduked