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Yoik vs Yok - What's the difference?

yoik | yok |

As nouns the difference between yoik and yok

is that yoik is a traditional style of Sami singing or chanting while yok is a non-Jew; a Gentile.

As a verb yoik

is to sing in a traditional Sami style.

yoik

English

(wikipedia yoik)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) A traditional style of Sami singing or chanting

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sing in a traditional Sami style

    • yok

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Yok

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) A non-Jew; a Gentile.
  • * 2006 , Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights , Vintage 2007, p. 162:
    • I'd been warned about just such a day, when the yoks would come with their white-boned fists and start knocking us about.
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