Did you perchance mean hook?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of juke1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See jouk, joukery.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast
- n. a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
Etymologies
- From Cantonese 粥 (juk1) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Congee is called "jook," so maybe next time I should use that word when I confound the folks in Chinatown.”
“Koreans also eat a kind of rice porridge jook which is similar to Chinese jook or congee, but made with short grain rice.”
“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.”
“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 was very happy, and the brief dream of the "jook" was over, but his heart clung to his old home.”
“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.”
“It's amazing sometimes just how little credit some folk do deserve ... jook”
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“Beulah would reach down and place her hand on the dogs head, whispering, Shhhh, jook.”
“When it is done, the jook should be soupy and creamy but still have a little chew.”
“The jook should have a porridge-like consistency; if it becomes very thick too quickly, turn down the heat and stir in more water.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jook’.
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Pease Porridge Hot
List of terms for porridge dishes made from seeds, grains, legumes, etc. from around the world.
See mollusque's list More gruel?.
mush, oatmeal, frumenty, pinhead oatmeal, porridge, grits, atole, gruel, shuco, polenta, gofio, kachamak and 69 more...
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rastafari
dem woodz assoseeated wit da reegae mon..
( Reggae, Rastafari, Rasta, Jamaica, Zion, Haile Selassie, Africa, Caribbean )
( slang, randomness )Rastafari, puff, Jah, reggae, Haile Selassie, Jamaica, Kingston, Caribbean, Dominican, Zion, Africa, cannabis and 81 more...
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Jazz Era
Swingin' and boppin' slang-a-lang.
mooche, moocher, kick the gong around, applesauce, the berries, hooch, juice joint, the john, rummy, screaming meemies, daddy, cokey and 66 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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featured on detritus
posted to the blog detritus & tagged "words"
embiggen, defalcation, polari, omphalos, osculation, ishikoro, googleganger, bodegeschmack, chindogu, delurk, googie, sqround and 10 more...
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J to K
jack, jailbreak, jampack, jannock, jashawk, jaywalk, jerk, jock, jook, juke, joystick, journeywork and 2 more...
Tweets
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marky Jamaican slang for 'poke'. Nov 6, 2010
madmouth as far as I know, Chinese rice gruel is called congee. Jook (죽) is Korean. May 7, 2009