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},
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"expansion": "Sranan Tongo dyuku",
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],
"etymology_text": "From Fula jukka. Compare Bahamian Creole jook, Nigerian Pidgin chook and Sranan Tongo dyuku.",
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"jook"
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"english": "He poked me in the eye.",
"text": "'Im jook mi inna mi yeye.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Ouch! I stepped on a thorn. (literally, “A thorn pierced the sole of my foot.”)",
"text": "Ow! Macca jook mi (inna mi foot bottom).",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I prodded him with the machete.",
"text": "I jook him wit' de cutlass.",
"type": "example"
}
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"pierce, prick, poke, prod, stick (poke)"
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"english": "She stabbed him with it.",
"text": "Shi jook im wid it.",
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"examples": [
{
"english": "Thrust twice.",
"text": "Jook two time.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Mark Wignall, “A sick hospital, carnival wine and Bible thumpers”, in The Jamaica Gleaner (in English)",
"text": "He should have grabbed for the best mouldy carnival costume, selected his best wining partner and taken to the streets in an attempt to jook and jam his problems away. […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"thrust with the pelvis (thrust)"
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"(vulgar, slang) thrust with the pelvis (thrust)"
],
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"examples": [
{
"english": "When I fucked her with it, she cried out for Jesus.",
"text": "When mi jook har pum pum wid it, she bawl out fi Jeezas.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds, Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language (in English)",
"text": "jook (jük): v. to prod or poke; to engage in sexual intercourse",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"have sex, fuck (have sex)"
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"(vulgar, slang) have sex, fuck (have sex)"
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"ipa": "/ˈdʒʊk/"
}
],
"word": "jook"
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"english": "He poked me in the eye.",
"text": "'Im jook mi inna mi yeye.",
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},
{
"english": "Ouch! I stepped on a thorn. (literally, “A thorn pierced the sole of my foot.”)",
"text": "Ow! Macca jook mi (inna mi foot bottom).",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I prodded him with the machete.",
"text": "I jook him wit' de cutlass.",
"type": "example"
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"pierce, prick, poke, prod, stick (poke)"
],
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"prick",
"prick"
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"stick",
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"University of the West Indies Press",
"w:University of the West Indies Press"
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"examples": [
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"english": "She stabbed him with it.",
"text": "Shi jook im wid it.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"stab"
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"stab"
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"Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
"Jamaican Creole terms with usage examples",
"Jamaican Creole vulgarities"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Thrust twice.",
"text": "Jook two time.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Mark Wignall, “A sick hospital, carnival wine and Bible thumpers”, in The Jamaica Gleaner (in English)",
"text": "He should have grabbed for the best mouldy carnival costume, selected his best wining partner and taken to the streets in an attempt to jook and jam his problems away. […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"thrust with the pelvis (thrust)"
],
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"thrust",
"thrust"
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],
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"(vulgar, slang) thrust with the pelvis (thrust)"
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"vulgar"
]
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"Jamaican Creole slang",
"Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
"Jamaican Creole terms with usage examples",
"Jamaican Creole vulgarities"
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"examples": [
{
"english": "When I fucked her with it, she cried out for Jesus.",
"text": "When mi jook har pum pum wid it, she bawl out fi Jeezas.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds, Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language (in English)",
"text": "jook (jük): v. to prod or poke; to engage in sexual intercourse",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"have sex, fuck (have sex)"
],
"links": [
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"have sex",
"have sex"
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"fuck"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar, slang) have sex, fuck (have sex)"
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"tags": [
"slang",
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"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/ˈdʒʊk/"
}
],
"word": "jook"
}
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