# jook
## English
### Etymology 1

Unknown. Compare duck (“to lower the head or body”) or jink (“to make an evasive turn”). Attested since the 16th century.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /dʒuːk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːk

#### Verb

jook (third-person singular simple present jooks, present participle jooking, simple past and past participle jooked)
* (Scotland, Northern England) To dodge; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; to dart away.
** 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 53:So ye were on the ground and ye just ran round and jooked through the men going up the stairs, some walking, some running, and if ye got into there nobody could get ye.

#### Noun

jook (plural jooks)
* A quick movement to evade something.
** 1882 April 20, “A Row in a Coalpit”, in Whitehaven News‎:Defendant then ran forward to kick him (witness) and he gave a "jook." Defendant was very unruly, and used bad language.
* A bow or curtsey.

### Etymology 2

From Cantonese 粥 (zuk1) and Korean 죽 (juk). Doublet of zhou and juk.

#### Noun

jook (uncountable)
* (Korean or Cantonese contexts) Synonym of congee.
** 2009 February 18, Mark Bittman, “Your Morning Pizza”, in New York Times‎:Or it could be that I’ve traveled enough to learn the joys of jook, the Chinese rice porridge also known as congee, which is among my favorite ways to start the day even when seasoned with nothing more than scallions, soy and chopped peanuts […]

### Etymology 3

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”).

#### Noun

jook (plural jooks)
* Alternative form of juke (“roadside cafe or bar, esp. with dancing”).
** 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 121:‘Bet heʼs hanginʼ round some jook or ʼnother.’

##### Derived terms

* jook house
* jook joint
* jook organ

### Etymology 4

From Jamaican Creole jook, from Fula jukka (“to poke”).

#### Pronunciation

* (MLE) IPA: /d͡ʒʊk/
* Rhymes: -ʊk

#### Verb

jook (third-person singular simple present jooks, present participle jooking, simple past and past participle jooked)
* MLE form of juke (“to stab, to ching”)

#### Noun

jook (plural jooks)
* (MLE) Knife.
    Synonyms: ching, ying, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, shank, nank, splash, splasher
** 2021 April 21, MJ & Earna (lyrics and music), “Baejing”, 1:14–1:18:Make man run when I back this jook Chef man up but ain’t no cook
* (MLE) Sexual intercourse.
** 2006 July 1, “Grim” (track 8), in Jme featured by Wiley (lyrics), Eskiboy: Da 2nd Phaze‎:But, if she's already been sent around like a zoot, then I ain't feelin the roach but (Roach) Don't think I'll turn her down, all that means that she not wifeyable, I'll still get the one jook now

#### Derived terms

* jooker (“knife”)

### Etymology 5

Unknown. Possibly related to Etymology 1, above. Compare Scots jouk (“(hidden under one's) jumper”).

#### Noun

jook (plural jooks)
* (informal, Scotland) A shirtfront; the front of a jumper or T-shirt.

##### Alternative forms

* juke

### References

* Eric Partridge (2015) “juke”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2nd edition, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 448.
* “jouk, n.$^2$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC. 2005 supplement.

### See also

* jook-sing

## Estonian
### Etymology

From jooma +‎ -k.

### Noun

jook (genitive joogi, partitive jooki)
* drink

#### Derived terms

* joogivesi

#### Related terms

* jooma

## Jamaican Creole
### Etymology

From Fula jukka. Compare Bahamian Creole jook, Nigerian Pidgin chook, Sranan Tongo dyuku, Grenadian Creole English djuck (“to stab”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdʒʊk/
* Hyphenation: jook

### Verb

jook
* pierce, prick, poke, prod, stick (poke)
    'Im jook mi inna mi yeye. ― He poked me in the eye.
    Ow! Macca jook mi (inna mi foot bottom). ― Ouch! I stepped on a thorn. (literally, “A thorn pierced the sole of my foot.”)
    I jook him wit' de cutlass. ― I prodded him with the machete.
* stab
    Shi jook im wid it. ― She stabbed him with it.
* (vulgar, slang) thrust with the pelvis (thrust)
    Jook two time. ― Thrust twice.
** 2018, Mark Wignall, “A sick hospital, carnival wine and Bible thumpers”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎ (in English):“He should have grabbed for the best mouldy carnival costume, selected his best wining partner and taken to the streets in an attempt to jook and jam his problems away. […] ”
* (vulgar, slang) have sex, fuck (have sex)
    When mi jook har pum pum wid it, she bawl out fi Jeezas. ― When I fucked her with it, she cried out for Jesus.

#### Derived terms

* jooks

### References

* ↑ Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 316
* ↑ Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 315

### Further reading

* jook – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary
* 2006, Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds, Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language (in English), →ISBN: