Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
jouk , joukery.
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- verb Scotland To
dodge ; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; todart away. - noun
Congee .
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- noun a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast
- noun a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
Etymologies
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Examples
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Koreans also eat a kind of rice porridge jook which is similar to Chinese jook or congee, but made with short grain rice.
Lack of posts gregarious monk 2007
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Koreans also eat a kind of rice porridge jook which is similar to Chinese jook or congee, but made with short grain rice.
Archive 2007-11-01 gregarious monk 2007
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Congee is called "jook," so maybe next time I should use that word when I confound the folks in Chinatown.
The end is near mj 2007
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Last winter, I made fresh pumpkin puree for the first time, and used a lot of the then golden-orange pulp right away to make breads, muffins, soups, and a korean porridge called ho-bahk jook "ho-bahk" means squash, and "jook" refers to any type of porridge, typically made with rice.
Archive 2005-04-01 2005
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Last winter, I made fresh pumpkin puree for the first time, and used a lot of the then golden-orange pulp right away to make breads, muffins, soups, and a korean porridge called ho-bahk jook "ho-bahk" means squash, and "jook" refers to any type of porridge, typically made with rice.
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When he got home, he found household matters at a standstill, for the bow-legged boy had been tearfully employed in thinking how Jan would despise his old friends when the "jook" had acknowledged him, and he had become a nob.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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Jan was very happy, and the brief dream of the "jook" was over, but his heart clung to his old home.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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When I turned five, my mother began rubbing my face and arms with pearl creams, and mixing ground pearls into my morning jook - rice porridge - hoping the white essence would permeate my skin.
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When I turned five, my mother began rubbing my face and arms with pearl creams, and mixing ground pearls into my morning jook - rice porridge - hoping the white essence would permeate my skin.
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It's amazing sometimes just how little credit some folk do deserve ... jook
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madmouth commented on the word jook
as far as I know, Chinese rice gruel is called congee. Jook (죽) is Korean.
May 7, 2009
marky commented on the word jook
Jamaican slang for 'poke'.
November 6, 2010