jouk

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. (Scotland, Northern England) To duck, dodge; to evade; to swerve.
   • 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 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

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.
• “deuk” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “jouk, n.²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. 2005 supplement.

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *joukko.

Noun

jouk

1. group
2. team
3. flock, herd

Declension