jouk

present singular third person jouks · participle present jouking · participle past jouked · past jouked · alternative jook · alternative juke

1. Northern EnglandScotlandintransitiveTo evade, to dodge, to duck; also, to swerve.

   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

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   [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 Miscellany Poems, Edinburgh: […] P. Matthie, and sold by Alexander Beck […], →OCLC, page 109