different between jook vs nook

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: no?ok, IPA^(key): /n?k/
• (obsolete) enPR: no?ok, IPA^(key): /nu?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology

From Middle English noke, nok (“nook, corner, angle”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots neuk, nuk (“corner, angle of a square, angular object”). Perhaps from Old English hnoc, hnocc (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Germanic *hnukkaz, *hnukkô (“a bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *knewg- (“to turn, press”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to pinch, press, bend”). If so, then also related to Scots nok (“small hook”), Norwegian dialectal nok, nokke (“hook, angle, bent object”), Danish nok (“hook”), Swedish nock (“ridge”), Faroese nokki (“crook”), Icelandic hnokki (“hook”), Dutch nok (“ridge”), Low German Nocke (“tip”), Old Norse hnúka (“to bend, crouch”), Old English ?ehnycned (“drawn, pinched, wrinkled”).

Noun

nook (plural nooks)

1. A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.

   Synonyms: alcove, ancone, recess

2. A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.

3. A recess, cove or hollow.

   Synonym: niche
4. (historical) An English unit of land area, originally ¹?₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹?₂ or 20 acres.

   Synonym: fardel

   • a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:

     You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

   • 1903, English Dialectical Dictionary, volume IV, page 295:

     Nook, an old legal term for 12+¹?₂ acres of land; still in use at Alston.

   • 1968, November 9, The Economist, page 2:

     They poured their wine by the aume or the fust, and cut their cloth by the goad—not to be confused with the gawd, which was a measure of steel. Their nook was not cosy; it covered 20 acres.

6. (chiefly Northern England, archaic) A corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land.

Alternative forms

• (corner of a piece of land): nuke

Hypernyms

• (unit of area): See hundred (16,000 nooks); see carucate (16); see virgate (4); see oxgang (2)

Hyponyms

• (unit of area): See fardel (¹?₂ nook), see acre (various fractions & for further subdivisions)

Derived terms

Related terms

• inglenook

Translations

Verb

nook (third-person singular simple present nooks, present participle nooking, simple past and past participle nooked)

1. To withdraw into a nook.
2. To situate in a nook.

References

Anagrams

• Kono