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Quyok, Queyoke, n. Also: qui-, qwy-, quȝ-, que- and -ak, -ack(e, -ek; qu(y)oacke. [Appar. of eastern, north-eastern and north. Sc. origin: Quy n. + -ok dimin. suffix, also in Playok n. and in many mod. Sc. formations, and in Buttok(e, Hillok, etc., OE -oc, -uc. Cf. also Quoyok, Quak, Quyach and Quoyach.Also in the mod. Sc. dial. as queyock, -ag (Caithness), queack, -ock (north-east), quoyack, -ock (Shetl.).] A young cow or heifer. = Quy n.¹Also attrib. with stirk.(a) 1497–8 Acta Conc. II 99.
[Freuchy:] xxxj ky and iiij qwyokis 1513 Doug. viii iv 76.
Quhil in the caif as that a quyok lowis 1531 Bell. Boece I lv.
Bot the quiokis war nevir slane quhill thay wer with calfe for than thay ar fattest and maist delicius to the mouth 1536 Prot. Bk. Sir J. Cristisone 47.
Quiok 1542 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I 76. 1562 Linlithgow Sheriff Ct. 28 Dec.
Ane broun quiok … of thre ȝeir ald 1562 Kinnaird Farm Bk. fol. 18b.
Item of qwyis of tway ȝeir auld, ij. Item of ane ȝeir ane qwyok 1563 Prot. Bk. J. Robeson MS 14.
Thre quyokis of thre ȝeir 1565 Kinnaird Farm Bk. fol. 33a.
Qwyokkis 1567 Edinb. Test. I 71.
Twa quyokis price of the pece xl s 1584 St. A. Test. II 38b.
Thre kye … twa quiokis 1588 Prot. Bk. J. Inglis 28 March.
Ane blak quhyt hornit kow with ane quyok of ane ȝere ald 1603 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 76. 1623 Blackhalls 146.
Item yeild nolt sex steires and ane quyok … pryce of the peice 40 s.(b) 1525 Prot. Bk. Sir J. Cristisone 14.
[One ox, one] quiak [one calf, one bullock] 1549–50 Ib. 101.
Quiack 1558–9 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I 156.
Ane young brandit quyak of ane yeir auld and ane half 1577 Edinb. Test. V 134b.
Quyak 1611 Inverurie 209.
Quyacks 1630 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III 592.
Quyacke 1637 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 462.(c) 1594–5 Spynie Reg. Ct. in Misc. Spald. C. II 127.
Quyek 1609 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 149.
Quyeks(d) 1611 Orkney & Shetl. Test. I 1.
Thrie quȝokis of thrie ȝeir auld(e) 1622 Orkney & Shetl. Test. I 87.
Tua stottis and tua queyokes(f) 1582 Grant Chart. 155.
Of queokis of tua ȝeir auldis(g) 1611 Fam. Rose 300.
Of great ky threttie, pryce of the peice xiij li. vj s. viij d. … thretty ane tua yeir auld queackis, pryce of the peice ouerheid vj lib. xiij s. iiij d. 1636 Old Ross-shire I 169.
14 young stots and queacks 1637 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 458.
Four young steiris and thrie young queackis(h) 1697 Rental of Brabster (Caithness) in Old-lore Misc. VIII 77.
Item he hes of my beasts in his custodie, a fleck hornd quoacke 2 yeir old come Beltaine, with a read humbled quyoacke 2 yeir old come Beltaineattrib. 1623 Orkney & Shetl. Test. I 102.
Tua quyok stirkis pryce of the peice xl s.