英和和英

語源

From Scots jouk.

動詞

jouk (third-person singular simple present jouks, present participle jouking, simple past and past participle jouked)

1. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To evade, to dodge, to duck; also, to swerve.
   • 1739, Alexander Nicol, “The Honest Country-man’s Meditation, as He was Humming It over Alone in Words at Resting-time”, in Nature without Art: Or, Nature’s Progress in Poetry. Being a Collection of Miscellany Poems, Edinburgh: […] P. Matthie, and sold by Alexander Beck […], →OCLC, page 109:

     [H]e can pray, and tell long Scrifts of Greek, / And broken Smatters of the Hebrevv ſpeak; / And in the Latin he is nicely read; / Can ſcrape and jouk; then is not he vvell bred?

   • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205:

     Dry stream channels descend the bare slopes into the valley floor, jouking this way and that to dodge tall extrusions of rock.