Definitions and meaning of sook
sook
English
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)
- Alternative spelling of suck.
Etymology 2
Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /suːk/, /sʊk/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /sʉk/
- Rhymes: -uːk, -ʊk
Noun
sook (plural sooks)
- (Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf.
- (US dialectal) Familiar name for a cow.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A poddy calf.
Synonyms
- (poddy calf): sookie (diminutive)
Interjection
sook
- (Scotland) A call for calves.
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- 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! […] ”
- (US dialectal) A call for cattle.
- (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/
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- Rhymes: -ʊk
Noun
sook (plural sooks)
- (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.
- (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang) A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
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)
- 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)
- (US, eastern shore of Maryland) A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).
Etymology 6
Verb
sook
- (nonstandard) simple past of seek
Anagrams
Yurok
Pronunciation
Noun
sook
- thing, object
- sort, kind, type, variety
Source: wiktionary.org