Pronounced: BAY-deh-kuhr, noun
Notes: I’ve run across this somewhere, but I don’t think it is well known
Yesterday’s word
The word jink means “to move quickly or unexpectedly with sudden turns and shifts”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1600s
Background / Comments
Our word is more well-known in the plural form, where it means “pranks”. Our word came from Scottish English, although the exact origins are unknown. It originally was used to indicate the quick motion of a fiddler’s elbow, but the word caught on with air force pilots and rugby players who both used the word to describe their elusive maneuvers to dodge opponents.
