jouk
jouk verb: to evade, to dodge, to duck; also, to swerve.
Verb
jouk (third-person singular simple present jouks, present participle jouking, simple past and past participle jouked)
- To evade, to dodge, to duck; also, to swerve.
- [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?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...
- Dry stream channels descend the bare slopes into the valley floor, jouking this way and that to dodge tall extrusions of rock.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205
Forms of jouk
| third-person singular present | jouks |
|---|---|
| present participle | jouking |
| past participle | jouked |
| past | jouked |
| alternative form | jook |
| alternative form | juke |
Origin of jouk
From Scots jouk.
Questions about jouk
- What does jouk mean?
- Jouk means to evade, to dodge, to duck; also, to swerve.
- What part of speech is jouk?
- Jouk is a verb.
- What is the past tense of jouk?
- The past tense of jouk is jouked.
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