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▪ I. yuke, n. Sc. and north. dial.|juːk|
Forms: see the vb.
[f. next.]
Itching, itch.
1551Turner 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. 1572Buchanan 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. 1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. ix, When their hands he shook, Ga'e them what he got frae his dad, Videlicet, the yuke. 1722in 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. 1824W. Oliver Songs 7 For fear that..Scotch Donald chance to myek owr free, An' gie wor king the yuick. [1901Let. 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.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. ii. vii. 574 Senyphes..And alkyn kynde of cleggis als Þat gert ȝhuyk [v.r. ȝuke] bathe heid and hals. a1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 130 Bot I may ȝuke all this ȝer, or his ȝerd help. a1600Montgomerie Sonn. xxvi. 3 Quhais craig ȝoiks fastest, let tham sey thame sell. 1674Ray N.C. Words 56 Yuck; Linc. 1790Burns ‘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. 1804R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. (c 1850) 99 She'll scart my back whene'er it yuks. 1816Scott Antiq. xxi, It wad hae been a fashious job that; by my certie, some o' our necks wad hae been ewking. 1882J. Walker Jaunt to Auld Reekie etc. 42 For poachin' aye his heart it yeukit.
Hence ˈyuking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1449W. Bower in Fordun's Scotichron. (1759) II. 376 Wyth prik ȝoukand eeris, as the awsk gleg [tr. L. auribus indisciplinata, ut aspis]. 1562Turner Bathes 1 b, Good..for the sciatica, and for all kindes of itche or iukinge. 1600J. Hamilton Facile Traictise 40 Sik as flatters thair zeuking earis. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v. Yuck, Such a nasty yucking pain comes on in the legs. 1894Crockett Raiders xxiv, When I get that dry yeukin' in my thrapple. |