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sook.

Familiar name for a calf.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/suːk//sʊk//sʉk/Northern-Ireland, Scotland

  1. Familiar name for a calf.

    Scotland · rare

  2. Familiar name for a cow.

    US · dialectal

  3. A poddy calf.

    Australia · New-Zealand
Where this word comes from

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

intj/suːk//sʊk//sʉk/Northern-Ireland, Scotland

  1. A call for calves.

    Scotland

  2. A call for cattle.

    US · dialectal

  3. A call for cattle or sheep.

    Newfoundland
Where this word comes from

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

noun/sʊk/

  1. 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.

  2. 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.
Where this word comes from

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.

noun/sʊk/

  1. A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).

    US
Where this word comes from

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

verb

  1. Alternative spelling of suck.

    alt-of · alternative
Where this word comes from

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

noun/suk/

  1. Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”).

    alt-of · alternative
Where this word comes from

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

verb

  1. simple past of seek

    form-of · nonstandard · past
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