different between juke vs junk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??u?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophones: jook (some senses), duke (with yod coalescence)

Etymology 1

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).

Noun

juke (plural jukes)

1. (Southern US) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
2. Short for jukebox.
   • 2011, Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning

     The juke played five times for a quarter and she never wearied of tapping. Nor did she tire of the same record five times in a row; she was too indolent to select more than one number.

Synonyms

• barrelhouse
• juke house
• juke joint

Translations

Derived terms

• jukebox
• juke joint

Verb

juke (third-person singular simple present jukes, present participle juking, simple past and past participle juked)

1. to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke

Etymology 2

From Jamaican Creole jook.

Verb

juke (third-person singular simple present jukes, present participle juking, simple past and past participle juked)

1. (slang) to hit
2. (prison slang) to stab
   • 2007, Teenager filmed by friend as he stabbed 16-year-old student to death (in Mail Online, 9 February 2007) [1]

     On the internet that night Asghar told a friend: "I'll bang him and then f*** it man, might as well juke [stab] him up tomorrow."

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stab

Alternative forms

• (to stab): jook (/d??k/)

Etymology 3

From Middle English jowken (“bend”)

Verb

juke (third-person singular simple present jukes, present participle juking, simple past and past participle juked)

1. (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer

   Synonym: dummy
2. (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
4. (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
5. (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.

Noun

juke (plural jukes)

1. (sports) A feint.

   Synonym: dummy

2. The neck of a bird.

References

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?ngk, IPA^(key): /d???k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English junke (“old cable, rope”), probably from Old French jonc (“rush”), from Latin iuncus (“rush”). Doublet of junco and juncus.

Noun

junk (uncountable)

1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
2. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
3. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
   • 1961, William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine, page 7

     Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.

4. (slang) The genitalia, especially a man’s.
   • 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok

     I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk

     Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk

     Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

5. (nautical) Salt beef.
   • c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere

     My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal .

6. Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
7. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
   • 1846-1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers

     Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his,
     An' gives a good-sized junk to all

8. (attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.

9. Nonsense; gibberish

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:trash
• Thesaurus:cameltoe
• Thesaurus:male crotch bulge

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

junk (third-person singular simple present junks, present participle junking, simple past and past participle junked)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw away.
2. (transitive, informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

Synonyms

• (throw away): bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash
• See also Thesaurus:junk

Translations

Etymology 2

From Portuguese junco or Dutch jonk (or reinforced), from Malay or Javanese djong, variant of djung, from Old Javanese jong (“seagoing ship”), ultimately from Chinese.

Noun

junk (plural junks)

2. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

Translations

References

Bavarian

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.

Adjective

junk

1. (Sappada) young

References

• “junk” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• djung, jung, jungh

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.

Adjective

junk

1. (Tredici Comuni) young

References

• “junk” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian diunk, from Proto-Germanic *dinkwaz, variant of *dankwaz (“dark”). Compare with German dunkel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /j??k/

Adjective

junk

1. (Sylt) dark

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon jung

Adjective

junk (comparative jinja)

1. young