jook
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Unknown. Compare duck (“to lower the head or body”) or jink (“to make an evasive turn”). Attested since the 16th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]jook (third-person singular simple present jooks, present participle jooking, simple past and past participle jooked)
- (Scotland, Northern England) To dodge; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; to dart away.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 53:
- So ye were on the ground and ye just ran round and jooked through the men going up the stairs, some walking, some running, and if ye got into there nobody could get ye.
Noun
[edit]jook (plural jooks)
- A quick movement to evade something.
- 1882 April 20, “A Row in a Coalpit”, in Whitehaven News[1]:
- Defendant then ran forward to kick him (witness) and he gave a "jook." Defendant was very unruly, and used bad language.
- A bow or curtsey.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Cantonese
Noun
[edit]jook (uncountable)
- Congee.
- 2009 February 18, Mark Bittman, “Your Morning Pizza”, in New York Times[2]:
- Or it could be that I’ve traveled enough to learn the joys of jook, the Chinese rice porridge also known as congee, which is among my favorite ways to start the day even when seasoned with nothing more than scallions, soy and chopped peanuts […]
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:jook.
Etymology 3
[edit]From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”).
Noun
[edit]jook (plural jooks)
- Alternative form of juke (“roadside cafe or bar, esp. with dancing”).
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 121:
- ‘Bet heʼs hanginʼ round some jook or ʼnother.’
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]From Jamaican Creole jook, from Fula jukka (“to poke”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]jook (third-person singular simple present jooks, present participle jooking, simple past and past participle jooked)
Noun
[edit]jook (plural jooks)
- (MLE) Knife.
- 2021 April 21, MJ & Earna (lyrics and music), “Baejing”, 1:14–1:18:
- Make man run when I back this jook
Chef man up but ain’t no cook
- (MLE) Sexual intercourse.
Derived terms
[edit]- jooker (“knife”)
Etymology 5
[edit]Unknown. Possibly related to Etymology 1, above. Compare Scots jouk (“(hidden under one's) jumper”).
Noun
[edit]jook (plural jooks)
- (informal, Scotland) A shirtfront; the front of a jumper or T-shirt.
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- Eric Partridge (2015) “juke”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2nd edition, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 448.
- “jouk, n.2” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. 2005 supplement.
See also
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]jook (genitive joogi, partitive jooki)
Declension
[edit]Declension of jook (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | jook | joogid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | joogi | ||
genitive | jookide | ||
partitive | jooki | jooke jookisid | |
illative | jooki joogisse |
jookidesse joogesse | |
inessive | joogis | jookides jooges | |
elative | joogist | jookidest joogest | |
allative | joogile | jookidele joogele | |
adessive | joogil | jookidel joogel | |
ablative | joogilt | jookidelt joogelt | |
translative | joogiks | jookideks joogeks | |
terminative | joogini | jookideni | |
essive | joogina | jookidena | |
abessive | joogita | jookideta | |
comitative | joogiga | jookidega |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Jamaican Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Fula jukka. Compare Bahamian Creole jook, Nigerian Pidgin chook, Sranan Tongo dyuku, Grenadian Creole English djuck (“to stab”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]jook
- pierce, prick, poke, prod, stick[1] (poke)
- 'Im jook mi inna mi yeye. ― He poked me in the eye.
- Ow! Macca jook mi (inna mi foot bottom). ― Ouch! I stepped on a thorn. (literally, “A thorn pierced the sole of my foot.”)
- I jook him wit' de cutlass. ― I prodded him with the machete.
- stab[2]
- Shi jook im wid it. ― She stabbed him with it.
- (vulgar, slang) thrust with the pelvis (thrust)
- Jook two time. ― Thrust twice.
- 2018, Mark Wignall, “A sick hospital, carnival wine and Bible thumpers”, in The Jamaica Gleaner[4] (in English):
- “He should have grabbed for the best mouldy carnival costume, selected his best wining partner and taken to the streets in an attempt to jook and jam his problems away. […] ”
- (vulgar, slang) have sex, fuck (have sex)
- When mi jook har pum pum wid it, she bawl out fi Jeezas. ― When I fucked her with it, she cried out for Jesus.
- 2006, Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds, Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language (in English), →ISBN:
- jook (jük): v. to prod or poke; to engage in sexual intercourse
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 316
- ^ Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 315
Further reading
[edit]- jook – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary
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