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sook osok sook osok oosk oosk soko osko skoo ksoo okso koso soko osko skoo ksoo okso koso ooks ooks okos koos okos koos

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Definitions and meaning of sook

sook

Etymology 1

English from the 14th century, Scottish from the 19th century. From Old English sūcan (“to suck”). See suck.

Verb

sook (third-person singular simple present sooks, present participle sooking, simple past and past participle sooked)

1. Alternative spelling of suck

Etymology 2

Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.

Alternative forms

• suck
• suke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːk/, /sʊk/
• Rhymes: -uːk, -ʊk

Noun

sook (plural sooks)

1. (Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf.
2. (US dialectal) Familiar name for a cow.
3. (Australia, New Zealand) A poddy calf.

Synonyms

• (poddy calf): sookie (diminutive)

Interjection

sook

1. (Scotland) A call for calves.
   • 1947, John Avery Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, page 265,

     “You get outside the cowlot gate and start calling like this:

     “Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie,

     Sook calf, sook calf! […] ”

2. (US dialectal) A call for cattle.
3. (Newfoundland) A call for cattle or sheep.

Synonyms

• (call): sook cow, sooky, sookie, sookow, sukow, suck, sucky, suck cow, sukey

Etymology 3

Probably from dialectal suck. Compare 19th century British slang sock (“overgrown baby”), British dialect suckerel (“suckling foal, unweaned child”), Canadian suck (“crybaby”), Canadian suck (“sycophant”). From 1933.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʊk/
• Rhymes: -ʊk

Noun

sook (plural sooks)

1. (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.

   Don't be such a sook.
2. (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang) A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.

   I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.

Synonyms

• (timid person): scaredy-cat, sissy

Derived terms

• sookey (adjective)
• sooky (adjective)
• sooky la-la

Related terms

• sookie, sookies, sooky baby (Atlantic Canada), (Australia)

Translations

Etymology 4

From Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”). From 1926. See souq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suk/
• Rhymes: -uːk

Noun

sook (plural sooks)

1. Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”).
   • 1964, Qantas Airways, Qantas Airways Australia, Volumes 30-31, page 11,

     Against these riches you may buy a cup of the bitter, herbed black final coffee from a street vendor for ten piasters — about 1½d. — and step through an arch into the next sook devoted to cheap shoes and vegetables and as full of the turbaned poor as an Arabian Nights reality.

Etymology 5

Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʊk/
• Rhymes: -ʊk

Noun

sook (plural sooks)

1. (US, eastern shore of Maryland) A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).

Etymology 6

Verb

sook

1. (nonstandard) simple past of seek

Anagrams

• soko

Yurok

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʂɔːk/

Noun

sook

1. thing, object
2. sort, kind, type, variety