jouks

Verb

jouk (third-person singular simple present jouks, present participle jouking, simple past and past participle jouked)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) 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...