| 释义 |
jukes
\ˈjüks\ noun
(plural jukes \“\ ; also jukeses \-ksə̇z\)
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Jukes, fictitious name of a family that was the subject of a study of hereditary tendencies to crime, immorality, disease, and poverty by Richard L. Dugdale died 1883 American sociologist
: a stupid person
< before the Revolution, more than fifty thousand of England's Jukes … poured into the colonies — Charles Hamilton >
— compare kallikak |