jouk

jouk

See also: juke and jook

English

Verb

jouk (third-person singular simple present jouks, present participle jouking, simple past and past participle jouked)

1. Alternative form of juke

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for jouk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Scots

Alternative forms

• jook, jeuk, juik, duik

Verb

jouk (third-person singular present jouks, present participle joukin, past jouked, past participle jouked)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To duck; to move away quickly to avoid (something); to evade.
2. (intransitive) To bow, to cower.
3. (transitive) To duck into water; to souse.

Noun

jouk (plural jouks)

1. A quick, evasive movement.
2. A bow or curtsey.
3. A trick; a deception.
4. (of a river) A bend, a meander.

References

• “jouk” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *joukko.

Noun

jouk

1. group