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Fook vs Jook - What's the difference?

fook | jook |

As verbs the difference between fook and jook

is that fook is (vulgar|northern england) to fuck while jook is (scotland|northern england) to dodge; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; to dart away.

As an interjection fook

is (vulgar|northern england) fuck.

As a noun jook is

congee or jook can be .

fook

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (vulgar, Northern England) fuck.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (vulgar, Northern England) To fuck.

    • jook

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin unknown. Compare duck "to lower the head or body" or jink "to make an evasive turn". Attested since the sixteenth century.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Congee.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 18, author=Mark Bittman, title=Your Morning Pizza, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Or it could be that I’ve traveled enough to learn the joys of jook , the Chinese rice porridge also known as congee, which is among my favorite ways to start the day even when seasoned with nothing more than scallions, soy and chopped peanuts

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "jook")

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) juke, jook,

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • Derived terms
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