yok
/jɒk/
yok is the alternative form of yock.
Meaning of yock
Noun
yock (plural yocks)
Noun
yok (plural yoks)
- A non-Jew; a Gentile.
- [W]e had not only won the cup but also a great moral victory over the yoks.1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 43
- I'd been warned about just such a day, when the yoks would come with their white-boned fists and start knocking us about.2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 162
Forms of yok
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | yoks |
| alternative form | Yok |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | yoks |
| present participle | yokking |
| past participle | yokked |
| past | yokked |
Origin of yok
Reversal of goy, with final devoicing.
Words that rhyme with yok
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sock
- unlock
- baroque
- flock
- locke
- mock
- ad hoc
- frock
- unblock
- undock
- VOC
- chock
- defrock
- nock
- o'clock
- prairie dock
- proc
- smock
- acock
- amok
- bangkok
- bloc
- Carvel Rock
- doc
- grok
- hough
- loch
- pock
- slock
- wedlock
- wok
- 24-hour clock
- bock
- bok
- brocc
- choc
- croc
- digital clock
- drop lock
- Farallon Rock
- flight sock
- freezer block
- gock
- hashlock
- hock
- kozachok
- lough
- Nixon shock
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: yok (page history and authors); yock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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