wuk

English

Noun

wuk (uncountable)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of work, representing African-American Vernacular English.

Verb

wuk (third-person singular simple present wuk, present participle wukkin', simple past and past participle wukked)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of work, representing African-American Vernacular English.
    • 1898, Barry Pain, The Curick:
      Thet's it—it evens up the score, and yet it don't wuk right,

Epigraphic Mayan

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Numeral

wuk

  1. seven

West Flemish

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch welc (which), from Old Dutch welik, from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz.

Pronoun

wuk

  1. what
    Synonym: wa
    Wuk i da?
    What is that?

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