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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Jouk, n. Also: jowk, juike. [f. Jouk,v.] a. A quick ducking or dodging movement. b. A bobbed obeisance, a genuflexion. c. fig. A ‘dodge’, a shifty trick, an evasion. —a. 1513 Doug. xiii. xi. 101.
In circulis wyde scho drave hym our the bent, With mony a curs and jowk, abowt, abowtb. 1567 G. Ball. 193.
For all ȝour joukis and your noddis, Ȝour hartis is hard as ony stonec. 1584 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 964.
To George Durrie he played a juike That will not be foryet this oulke