jook

¹

[jook, jook]

noun

Slang.

1. juke joint.

jook

²

[jook]

noun

Scot.

1. jouk.

jook

/ dʒʊk /

verb

1. (tr) to poke or puncture (the skin)

noun

1. a jab or the resulting wound

Word History and Origins

Origin of jook¹

C20: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

The exhibition is divided into 12 conceptual sections: ownership, presence, distinction, disguise, freedom, champion, respectability, jook, heritage, beauty, cool and cosmopolitanism.

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And, with a bowl of jook that Wong has learned to make herself, “I thought about how I could finally feed those I love,” how “everything I eat is a reminder that I am alive.”

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She could no longer eat, the jook and bone marrow she’d written so passionately about in her memoir replaced by a pricey tube-fed prescription called Liquid Hope.

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Known as juk or jook in Korea, bubur in Indonesia, lugaw in the Philippines and dozens of other names around the world, there are also an endless variety of ways to make it.

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Making jook was the way mothers made hungry babies feel full, by letting them drink the “milk” extracted from the rice.

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