Jooked vs Rooked - What's the difference?
jooked | rooked |
(jook)
(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.
Congee.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 18, author=Mark Bittman, title=Your Morning Pizza, work=New York Times
, 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
(rook)
A European bird, Corvus frugilegus , of the crow family.
* Pennant
A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
(British) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
To cheat or swindle.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
(chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
(rare) A castle or other fortification.
mist; fog; roke
As verbs the difference between jooked and rooked
is that jooked is past tense of jook while rooked is past tense of rook.jooked
English
Verb
(head)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)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(-)citation
Quotations
(English Citations of "jook")Etymology 3
From (etyl) juke, jook,Derived terms
* (l) ----rooked
English
Verb
(head)rook
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) rok, roke, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The rook should be treated as the farmer's friend.
- (Wycherley)
Synonyms
* (swindler) swindler, cheatHypernyms
* (bird) bird * (firecracker) firecrackerVerb
(en verb)- Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.
