[lit-ideas] Re: Jink & Juke

I forgot to add that the older dictionaries had no entry for "juke." The contemporary one--Warrack--also spells it jouk and jouck and lists: 

to duck so as to avoid a blow
to evade or dodge
to swerve suddenly
(used of a stream) to meander or wind
(of a light) to flicker
to bow or curtsy
to cheat or swindle
to jilt
to play truant
a jouck or jouk is a shelter from a storm or a swerve or a bow or a dodge or trick, but a jouker is just and only a truant. 

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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