v. Sc. Also 6–7 jake. [Origin obscure: cf. JANK.] intr. To trifle, delay, dawdle.
1568. ‘Say weill is trewly ane wirthy guid Thing,’ in Bannatyne Poems (1885), II. 231. Say weill him self will sumtyme adwance, Bot do weill dois nowdir jake nor prance.
1600. J. Melvill, Diary (Wodrow Soc.), 435. They haid jaked on manie dayes.
1785. Burns, Cotter’s Saturday Nt., vi. An’ ne’er tho’ out o’ sight, to jauk or play.
1825–80. Jamieson, To Jauk, to trifle, to dally, in walking or work.
