different between bouk vs jouk

English

Alternative forms

• bouke

Etymology

From Middle English bouk, from Old English b?c (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-Germanic *b?kaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål bukk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”). See also bucket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/, /b??k/

Noun

bouk (plural bouks)

1. (Britain dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
2. (Britain dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.
3. (Britain dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.

Anagrams

• Kubo, boku, buko

Marshallese

Alternative forms

• bou
• boub

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [p?ouk]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /p?ewik/
• Bender phonemes: {b?wik}

Noun

bouk

1. a dragonfly

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English

Alternative forms

• booke, book, buc, buk, boyke, bouke

Etymology

From Old English b?c, from Proto-Germanic *b?kaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?k/

Noun

bouk (plural boukes or bouken)

1. belly, stomach
2. body (especially a corpse)
3. The main portion of a structure

Descendants

• English: bouk (obsolete)
• Scots: bouk, bowk, buik

References

• “b?uk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

English

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of juke

Scots

Alternative forms

• jook, jeuk, juik, duik

Etymology 1

Variant of deuk, from Middle English d?ke or dukke. Compare Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to duck, dive”).

Verb

jouk (third-person singular present jouks, present participle joukin, past jouked, past participle jouked)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to duck; to move away quickly to avoid (something); to evade
2. (intransitive) to bow, to cower
3. (transitive) to duck into water; to souse

Noun

jouk (plural jouks)

1. a quick, evasive movement
2. a bow or curtsey
3. a trick; a deception
4. (of a river) a bend, a meander

Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps from the “evade” sense of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

jouk (plural jouks)

1. jumper, jersey, pullover, sweater; (typically) of something hidden or carried under one's clothing

References

• “jouk” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “deuk” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “jouk, n.²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. 2005 supplement.

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *joukko.

Noun

jouk

1. group