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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To evade, to dodge, to duck; also, to swerve..
[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?
Dry stream channels descend the bare slopes into the valley floor, jouking this way and that to dodge tall extrusions of rock.
Use jouk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jouk means (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To evade, to dodge, to duck; also, to swerve..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[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?
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