She only paused long enough to grab a cuke from the tub, then chased me like someonefrom the cartoons.
cucumber in British English
(ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə)
noun
1.
a creeping cucurbitaceous plant, Cucumis sativus, cultivated in many forms for its edible fruit
Compare squirting cucumber
2.
the cylindrical fruit of this plant, which has hard thin green rind and white crisp flesh
3.
any of various similar or related plants or their fruits
4. cool as a cucumber
cuke in American English
(kjuk)
noun
Informal
cucumber (sense 2)
cuke in American English
(kjuːk)
noun
informal
cucumber
Word origin
[1900–05; by shortening and resp.]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, cathode-ray tube, clone, desensitize, hormone