jook

See also: jouk and juke

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Compare duck (“to lower the head or body”) or jink (“to make an evasive turn”). Attested since the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒuːk/
• Rhymes: -uːk

Verb

jook (third-person singular simple present jooks, present participle jooking, simple past and past participle jooked)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To dodge; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; to dart away.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 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

jook (plural jooks)

1. 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.

2. A bow or curtsey.

Etymology 2

From Cantonese 粥 (zuk1) and Korean 죽 (juk). Doublet of zhou.

Noun

jook (uncountable)

1. 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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:jook.

Etymology 3

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”).

Noun

jook (plural jooks)

1. 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

• jook joint

Etymology 4

From Jamaican Creole jook, from Fula jukka (“to poke”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒʊk/
• Rhymes: -ʊk

Verb

jook (third-person singular simple present jooks, present participle jooking, simple past and past participle jooked)

1. MLE form of juke (“to stab, to ching”)

Noun

jook (plural jooks)

1. (MLE) Knife.

   Synonyms: ching, ying, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, shank, nank, splash, splasher

   • 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

Derived terms

• jooker (“knife”)

Etymology 5

Unknown. Possibly related to Etymology 1, above. Compare Scots jouk (“(hidden under one's) jumper”).

Noun

jook (plural jooks)

1. (informal, Scotland) A shirtfront; the front of a jumper or T-shirt.

Alternative forms

• juke

References

• 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.

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Estonian

Etymology

From jooma +‎ -k.

Noun

jook (genitive joogi, partitive jooki)

1. drink

Derived terms

• joogivesi

Related terms

• jooma

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Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From Fula jukka. Compare Bahamian Creole jook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʊk/
• Hyphenation: jook

Verb

jook

1. pierce, prick, poke, prod, stick (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.

2. stab

   Shi jook im wid it. ― She stabbed him with it.

3. (vulgar, slang) thrust with the pelvis (thrust)
   • 2018, Mark Wignall, “A sick hospital, carnival wine and Bible thumpers”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎^[3] (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. […] ”

   Jook two time. ― Thrust twice.

4. (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

• jooks

Further reading

• jook – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary