▪ I. † juck, n. Obs.
Forms: 6 iuk, 6–7 iouk, 7 iucke.
[Origin, form, and meaning uncertain.]
? A joint of a bird's wing.
| 1575 Turberv. Faulconrie 106 Giue hir but a little meate..that when she is therewith accustomed, you maye giue hir plumage and a Iuk [ed. 1611 iucke] of a ioynt. Ibid. 217 They giue them [sparrowhawks] ioukes [so 1611] of wings of small birdes, & Quailes, when they haue fedde them, skaring them out with their teeth, and plucking away the longest feathers, and so giue it. |
▪ II. juck, juke, v.
(dʒʌk, dʒuːk)
Forms: 7 iouk, iuke, juke, 8– juck.
[Echoic: cf. chuck v.1
But perh. orig. a transferred sense of jouk v.1, due to the accidental similarity to this of the sound uttered by the partridge when jouking, jugging, or settling down for the night. Quots. 1621, 1669, might refer to this act, rather than the call. Cf. also jug v.3]
intr. To make a sound or call imitated by this word, as a partridge. Hence ˈjucking vbl. n.
| 1611 Cotgr., Cabab, the chucking, churring, or iouking of a Partridge. 1621 Markham Prev. Hunger (1655) 241 The place where you heard them iuke. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 252 Imitating their Notes at their Juking-time, which is usually in the Morning and in the Evening. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Spread Net, You will soon know if there be any of the Birds by their Calling and Jucking. 1870 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports §2619 They [partridges] have several calls... One very important one, and to the practised sportsman readily recognised, is their jucking, when they settle down together for the night. |
¶ Used in sense of jug v.3; cf. also jouk v.1
| 1828 Sporting Mag. XXII. 430 Bushing the fields where they are likely to juck or sleep. |
▪ III. juck
variant of jouk v.2