Crossword clues for jook
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dodge, duck," 1510s, Scottish, of unknown origin. Related: Jooked; jooking.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context Scotland northern England English) To dodge; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; to dart away. Etymology 2
n. congee. Etymology 3
n. (alternative form of juke roadside cafe or bar, esp. with dancing English)
WordNet
n. a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast [syn: congee]
a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox [syn: juke, juke joint, jook joint, juke house, jook house]
Wikipedia
Jook may refer to:
- Congee, East Asian rice porridge, pronounced in Cantonese and romanized jook in some Cantonese diasporic communities.
- Juke joint, informal social establishment
Usage examples of "jook".
A bronze of Jook stood atop a low pedestal in the center of the sunburst-emblazoned chamber floor.
The court of Jook the First was resplendent in banners and battle flags.
The structures and their vicinities were vaporized, along with Emperor-General Jook the First and the Imperial Body Guard.
He was so close that Danlo could see each of the large pores puncturing his cheeks and smell the metallic acridness of jook wafting off his breath.
While Arpiar and Rafael debated the hallucinogenic properties of jook and other drugs that Pedar had been fond of, Hanuman threaded his way down the steps.
Bardo had brought back with him riches and many, many things, the pelf of a hundred worlds: gosharps and sihu oil, furniture, bonsai plants, sacred jewellery from Vesper, blacking oil, tondos, paintings and Darghinni sculpture, many kinds of sense boxes including dreammakers and other exotic toys, and Yarkona diamonds, and Darkmoon rubies, emeralds, opals, firestones, and pearls from the ocean floors of New Earth, Fravashi carpets, of course, and drugs such as jook, jambool, toalache, beer and skotch.
Pedar was addicted to jook, a squalid drug whose effects include inflamed eyes and irritability as well as bleeding gums, pimples, and even hallucinations.
Arpiar and Rafael debated the hallucinogenic properties of jook and other drugs that Pedar had been fond of, Hanuman threaded his way down the steps.
He only trying to box me, he eyes boring hate into me like them could jook inside my brain and strike me dead.
Stewball trotted off, whinnying, and I stepped up on the broad cool porch of the Jook House with my harmonica in my hand.
Took to carryin him round where he want to go, he tell me and we get there somehow and I learn all the jook joints for fifty miles and learn how he play too, with a broken filed bottleneck to run up an down coaxin sweet or mournful deep-down blue curves of sound from the strings.
Introduces the reader to the whole world of jook joints, lying contests, and tall-tale sessions that make up the drama of the folk life of black people in the rural South.
His wife rushed out, saw the lyre, Jooked at me and shrieked tike a demon.
They were trying to look the part, but they more resembled pissed-off vets, convicts, and whores who stumbled into a jook joint through the side door during prohibition.