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Is sook a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sook is a Scrabble US word. The word sook is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is sook a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sook is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Valid words made from Sook

You can make 8 words from 'sook' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'sook'

SOOK 8 

3 letters words from 'sook'

KOS 7OOS 3

2 letters words from 'sook'

KO 6OK 6
OO 2OS 2
SO 2 

All 4 letters words made out of sook

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

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word sook. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in sook.

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
    • 1832, Scottish proverbs, collected and arranged by A. Henderson, p 32:
      Ae hour's cauld will sook out seven years' heat.
    • 1864, William Duncan Latto: Tammas Bodkin: Or, the Humours of a Scottish Tailor, p 378:
      Tibbie an' Andro bein' at that moment in the act o' whirlin' roond us were sooked into the vortex an' upset likewise, so that here were haill four o's sprawlin' i' the floor at ance.
    • 1903, John Stevenson: Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting, p 182:
      You pursed your mooth in shape like O,
      And sook'd the air in, might and main

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/

Noun

sook (plural sooks)

  1. (Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf.
  2. (US dialectal) Familiar name for a cow.
  3. (Newfoundland) A cow or sheep.
  4. (Australia, New Zealand) A poddy calf.
Synonyms
  • (poddy calf): sookie (diminutive)

Interjection

sook

  1. (Scotland) A call for calves.
    • 1919, Strickland Gillilan, A Sample Case of Humor, page 47,
      Mother actually turned her back on that sheep and began dabbling her hand in the milk, saying, “Sook, calfy, sook, calfy!” seductively while the calf gave her the evil eue and walked backward.
    • 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,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/

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.
    • 2006, Randa Abdel-Fattah, Ten Things I Hate About Me, unnumbered page,
      You must think I'm a sook, hey? Here I am complaining about my dad's job and my curfew and your dad cheated on your mum. You put things into perspective for me.
    • 2007, Jan Teagle Kapetas, Lubra Lips, Lubra Lips: Reflections on my Face, Maureen Perkins (editor), Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia, page 31,
      ‘What a sook! Look at her cry!’
      ‘Yeah, look at the Abo cry!’
    • 2008, Kieran Kelly, Aspiring: Mountain climbing is no cure for middle age, Pan MacMillan Australia, page 233,
      Only sooks ask guides how far there is to go.
  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.
    • 2002, June Duncan Owen, Mixed Matches: Interracial Marriage in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, page 87,
      ‘Have a sook! Have a sook!’, they'd all yell. But that time I didn't go outside to cry.
Synonyms
  • (timid person): scaredy-cat, sissy
Derived terms
  • sookey (adjective)
  • sooky (adjective)
  • sooky la-la
Related terms
  • sookie, sookies, sooky, sooky baby (Atlantic Canada)
Translations

Etymology 4

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suk/

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/

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 tense of seek

Anagrams

  • soko

Source: wiktionary.org
  • SOOGIE, to clean a ship's deck with a solution of soap, soda etc..
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)