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Sook
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- 1 A call for calves. Scotland
"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."
- 2 A call for cattle. US, dialectal
- 3 A call for cattle or sheep. Newfoundland
- 1 Familiar name for a calf. Scotland, rare
- 2 A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward. Atlantic-Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang
"Don't be such a sook."
- 3 Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”). alt-of, alternative
"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."
- 4 A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus). US
"The life cycle of the crab in the bay causes a preponderance of adult males (jimmy crabs) to occur in the waters of the upper bay while conversely a concentration of adult females (sook crabs) occurs in the more saline waters near the mouth of the bay (table 2)."
- 5 Familiar name for a cow. US, dialectal
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- 6 A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking. Atlantic-Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, slang
"I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it."
- 7 A poddy calf. Australia, New-Zealand
- 1 Alternative spelling of suck. alt-of, alternative
"Ae hour's cauld will sook out seven years' heat."
- 2 simple past of seek form-of, nonstandard, past
Etymology
English from the 14th century, Scottish from the 19th century. From Old English sūcan (“to suck”). See suck.
Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.
Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.
Probably from dialectal suck as is Etymology 1 above. Compare 19th century British slang sock (“overgrown baby”), British dialect suckerel (“suckling foal, unweaned child”), Canadian suck (“crybaby”), Canadian suck (“sycophant”). From 1933.
From Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”). From 1926. See souq.
Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.
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