cuke vs veggie

cuke and veggie both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cuke	Yes	No	No	No
veggie	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, veggie is a hypernym of cuke; that is, veggie is a word with a broader meaning than cuke:

cuke: cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
veggie: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Other hypernyms of cuke include veg, vegetable.

cuke (noun)	veggie (noun)
cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant