Sc. Forms: 6 iouk, iowk, iuike, 8– jouk, jook. [f. JOUK v.2]
1. A sudden elusive movement; a quick turn out of the way; fig. a ‘dodge.’ To give (a person) the jouk: to give the slip, to elude, escape from.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XI. xiii. 101. With mony a curs [= course] and iowk, abowt, abowt, Quhair euir he fled scho followis in and owt.
1583. Leg. Bp. St. Androis, 964. To George Durrie he played a iuike, That will not be foryet this oulke.
1871. C. Gibbon, Lack of Gold, xxix. He has given the lass the jouk.
2. A bow or curtsy, a jerked obeisance.
1567. Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.), 193. For all ȝour Joukis and ȝour noddis, Ȝour hartis is hard as ony stone.
1768. Ross, Helenore (1866), 203. She … hailst her with a jouk. Ibid., 239. The honest shepherd … wondering at the kindness, gae a jook.
3. A place into which one may dart for shelter; a shelter from a blow, a storm, etc. Mod. Sc.
1808–18. in Jamieson.
