wuk
English
Noun
wuk (uncountable)
- 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)
- 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
Alternative forms
Numeral
wuk
West Flemish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Dutch welc (“which”), from Old Dutch welik, from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz.
Pronoun
wuk
Derived terms
- etwuk
- voewuk