jouk

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See also: juke and jook

English

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Etymology

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From Scots jouk.

Verb

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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

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Etymology 1

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

Verb

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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

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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

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

Noun

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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

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Veps

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *joukko.

Noun

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jouk

  1. group
  2. team
  3. flock, herd

Declension

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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