English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒuːk/

Verb

jook ‎(third-person singular simple present jooks, present participle jooking, simple past and past participle jooked)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To dodge; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; to dart away.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 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.

Etymology 2

From Cantonese 粥 (zuk1)

Noun

jook ‎(uncountable)

1. 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 […]

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:jook.

Etymology 3

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

Noun

jook ‎(plural jooks)

1. Alternative form of juke ‎(“roadside cafe or bar, esp. with dancing”)

Derived terms

• jook joint

Noun

jook ‎(plural jooks)

1. (informal, Scotland) shirtfront; the front of a jumper or t-shirt

Estonian

Noun

jook ‎(genitive joogi, partitive jooki)

1. drink

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• joogivesi

Related terms

• jooma