jouk

See also: juke and jook

English

Alternative forms

• jook, juke

Etymology

From Scots jouk.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To evade, to dodge, to duck; also, to swerve.
   • 1739, Alexander Nicol, “The Honest Country-man’s Meditation, as He was Humming It over Alone in Words at Resting-time”, in Nature without Art: Or, Nature’s Progress in Poetry. Being a Collection of Miscellany Poems, Edinburgh: […] P. Matthie, and sold by Alexander Beck […], →OCLC, page 109:

     [H]e can pray, and tell long Scrifts of Greek, / And broken Smatters of the Hebrevv ſpeak; / And in the Latin he is nicely read; / Can ſcrape and jouk; then is not he vvell bred?

   • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205:

     Dry stream channels descend the bare slopes into the valley floor, jouking this way and that to dodge tall extrusions of rock.

Scots

Alternative forms

• jook, jeuk, juik, duik

Etymology 1

Variant of deuk, from Middle English dūke or dukke. Compare Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to duck, dive”).

Verb

jouk (third-person singular simple present jouks, present participle joukin, simple past and 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

Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps from the “evade” sense of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

jouk (plural jouks)

1. jumper, jersey, pullover, sweater; (typically) of something hidden or carried under one's clothing

   up yer jouk

   under your jumper

References

• “jouk”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• “deuk”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• “jouk, n.²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC. 2005 supplement.

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *joukko.

Noun

jouk

1. group
2. team
3. flock, herd

Declension

Inflection of jouk (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	jouk
genitive sing.	joukun
partitive sing.	joukud
partitive plur.	joukuid
	singular	plural
nominative	jouk	joukud
accusative	joukun	joukud
genitive	joukun	joukuiden
partitive	joukud	joukuid
essive-instructive	joukun	joukuin
translative	joukuks	joukuikš
inessive	joukus	joukuiš
elative	joukuspäi	joukuišpäi
illative	joukuhu	joukuihe
adessive	joukul	joukuil
ablative	joukulpäi	joukuilpäi
allative	joukule	joukuile
abessive	joukuta	joukuita
comitative	joukunke	joukuidenke
prolative	joukudme	joukuidme
approximative I	joukunno	joukuidenno
approximative II	joukunnoks	joukuidennoks
egressive	joukunnopäi	joukuidennopäi
terminative I	joukuhusai	joukuihesai
terminative II	joukulesai	joukuilesai
terminative III	joukussai	—
additive I	joukuhupäi	joukuihepäi
additive II	joukulepäi	joukuilepäi