different between jook vs dook

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?u?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k

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.

Noun

jook (plural jooks)

1. A quick movement to evade something.
2. A bow or curtsey.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

jook (uncountable)

1. Congee.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:jook.

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• (MLE) IPA^(key): /d??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

jook (plural jooks)

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

Derived terms

• jook joint

Etymology 4

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

Verb

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

1. MLE form of juke (“to stab, to ching”)

Derived terms

• jooka (“knife”)

Etymology 5

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

Noun

jook (plural jooks)

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

Alternative forms

• juke

References

• Eric Partridge (2014) , “jook”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, ?ISBN, page 448
• “jouk, n.²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries. 2005 supplement.

Estonian

Etymology

From jooma +? -k.

Noun

jook (genitive joogi, partitive jooki)

1. drink

Declension

Derived terms

• joogivesi

Related terms

• jooma

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From Fula jukka. Compare Bahamian Creole jook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??k/
• Hyphenation: jook

Verb

jook

1. pierce, prick, poke, prod, stick (poke)

2. stab

3. (vulgar, slang) thrust with the pelvis (thrust)

4. (vulgar, slang) have sex, fuck (have sex)

Derived terms

• jooks

References

Further reading

• jook – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dooking, simple past and past participle dooked)

1. (of a ferret) To make a certain clucking sound.
   • 2014, Timothy Smith, Chinook the Ferret's Halloween Adventure (page 1)

     The sun has gone down - what's that dooking sound? It must be trick or treating time. I glance across the bedroom floor and I see Chinook and Nikomi's ferret eyes.

Translations

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

Etymology 2

From duck.

Verb

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dooking, simple past and past participle dooked)

1. (dialect) Alternative form of duck (verb)

Etymology 3

From Dutch doek (“cloth, fabric, canvas”), from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *d?c, from Proto-West Germanic *d?k, from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (“cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *dw?g-, *dw?k- (“cloth”). See also duck (cloth).

Alternative forms

• doock

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. (Britain dialectal) a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

Derived terms

• dooky
• sail-doock

Etymology 4

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. (Scotland) A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.

Etymology 5

Noun

dook (uncountable)

1. (slang) dookie; feces
   • 2016, A. F. Knott, The Trainee

     I'm sick of people messing up my bathroom. […] I don't like seeing logs of dook at the bottom of the bowl when I go in there.

Anagrams

• doko

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?k

Verb

dook

1. singular past indicative of duiken

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English douken. More at English duck.

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. duck (act of ducking)
2. bathe

Verb

dook (third-person singular present dooks, present participle dookin, past dookit, past participle dookit)

1. to duck
2. to bathe

Etymology 2

From Dutch doek (“cloth, linen, garment”). More at English duck (“canvas”).

Alternative forms

• doock (obsolete)

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. A strong, untwilled linen or cotton fabric; duck

Derived terms

• sail-doock
• dooky