different between jook vs mook

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

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of moke (“donkey”) (British slang), first appearing in the US in the 1930s.

Alternately, it could be a corruption of the Italian and Neapolitan word mammalucco (“mamluk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k

Noun

mook (plural mooks)

1. (slang, US, chiefly Upper Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and New England) A disagreeable or incompetent person.
2. (colloquial, gaming) An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.

Derived terms

• mookish

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of magazine +? book

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

mook (plural mooks)

1. A book published in the form factor of a magazine.

Synonyms

• bookazine
• mag book

Anagrams

• moko

Totontepec Mixe

Noun

mook

1. cob, corn.