▪ I. yuke, n. Sc. and north. dial.
(juːk)
Forms: see the vb.
[f. next.]
Itching, itch.
| 1551 Turner Herbal i. A v b, Wormwood..helyth also the yche or yuke. Ibid. P iv, The broth of them is good..for itche or yeewk that goeth ouer the hole body. 1572 Buchanan Detectioun in Jas. Anderson Coll. (1727) II. 16 Certane blak Pimples..brak out ouer all his haill Body, with sa greit Zuik,..that he lingerit out his Lyfe with verray small Hope of Eschaip. 1715 Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. ix, When their hands he shook, Ga'e them what he got frae his dad, Videlicet, the yuke. 1722 in C'tess Suffolk's Lett. (1824) I. 93 All the best families in the parish are laid up with what they call the yoke—which in England is the itch. 1824 W. Oliver Songs 7 For fear that..Scotch Donald chance to myek owr free, An' gie wor king the yuick. [1901 Let. to Editor, Among stablemen, coachmen, &c., the itch goes by the name of the ‘dukes’ (or dooks), and horses suffering from the complaint are referred to as ‘dukey (or dooky) horses’.] |
▪ II. yuke, v. Sc. and north. dial.
(juːk)
Forms: 5 ȝhuyk, ȝoke, ȝouk, 5–6 ȝuke, 6 ȝoik, yuik, iuke, yeewk, 7 yeauk, 6– yeuk, yuke, 7– yuck, 8–9 yook, (youk, yoke, 9 yuk, yuc, yewk, yeuck, yuick, ewk, euk(e, uke).
[app. alteration of north. ME. ȝeke, ȝike (see itch v.1), prob. under the influence of MDu. jeuken.]
intr. To itch.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. ii. vii. 574 Senyphes..And alkyn kynde of cleggis als Þat gert ȝhuyk [v.r. ȝuke] bathe heid and hals. a 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 130 Bot I may ȝuke all this ȝer, or his ȝerd help. a 1600 Montgomerie Sonn. xxvi. 3 Quhais craig ȝoiks fastest, let tham sey thame sell. 1674 Ray N.C. Words 56 Yuck; Linc. 1790 Burns ‘Kind Sir, I've read’, etc. 26 How Daddie Burke the plea was cookin', If Warren Hastings' neck was yeukin'. 1796 ― Poem on Life vi, Ah Nick!.. Thy auld, damned elbow yeuks wi' joy, And hellish pleasure. 1804 R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. (c 1850) 99 She'll scart my back whene'er it yuks. 1816 Scott Antiq. xxi, It wad hae been a fashious job that; by my certie, some o' our necks wad hae been ewking. 1882 J. Walker Jaunt to Auld Reekie etc. 42 For poachin' aye his heart it yeukit. |
Hence ˈyuking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| a 1449 W. Bower in Fordun's Scotichron. (1759) II. 376 Wyth prik ȝoukand eeris, as the awsk gleg [tr. L. auribus indisciplinata, ut aspis]. 1562 Turner Bathes 1 b, Good..for the sciatica, and for all kindes of itche or iukinge. 1600 J. Hamilton Facile Traictise 40 Sik as flatters thair zeuking earis. 1886 S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v. Yuck, Such a nasty yucking pain comes on in the legs. 1894 Crockett Raiders xxiv, When I get that dry yeukin' in my thrapple. |