jouk

American  

[jook] / dʒuk /

Or jook

noun

1. a sudden, elusive movement.

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verb (used with or without object)

1. to dodge or duck.

jouk British  

/ dʒʊk /

verb

1. to duck or dodge

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noun

1. a sudden evasive movement

Etymology

Origin of jouk

First recorded in 1510–20; apparently variant of duck ²

Example Sentences

It was blithe and heartsome to go birling to Skeighan in the train; it was grand to jouk round Barbie on the nichts at e'en!

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

An anxious e’e I never throws Behint my lug, or by my nose; I jouk beneath misfortune’s blows As weel’s I may; Sworn foe to sorrow, care, and prose, I rhyme away.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

To gain that spot the aim be ours, For nocht we 'll get unless we try; And when misfortune round us lours, We 'll jouk and let the jaw gae by.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

An anxious e'e I never throws Behint my lug, or by my nose; I jouk beneath Misfortune's blows As weel's I may; Sworn foe to sorrow, care, and prose, I rhyme away.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Thou need na jouk behint the hallan, A chiel sae clever; The teeth o' time may gnaw Tantallan, But thou's for ever.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert