Pronunciations (3)
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/suːk/
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/sʊk/
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/sʉk/
Pronunciation notes
- Northern-Ireland
- Scotland
Noun
Familiar name for a calf.
Usage- Scotland
- Rare
Familiar name for a cow.
Usage- US usage
- dialectal
A poddy calf.
Usage- Australia
- New-Zealand
Interjection
A call for calves.
Usage- Scotland
- Examples
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More examples (1)
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.
Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie, Sook calf, sook calf! […]
A call for cattle.
Usage- US usage
- dialectal
A call for cattle or sheep.
Usage- Newfoundland
Noun
A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
Usage- Atlantic-Canada
- Australia
- New-Zealand
- Derogatory
- Slang
- Examples
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Don't be such a sook.
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.
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‘What a sook! Look at her cry!’ ‘Yeah, look at the Abo cry!’
Only sooks ask guides how far there is to go.
A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
Usage- Atlantic-Canada
- Australia
- New-Zealand
- Slang
- Examples
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I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
‘Have a sook! Have a sook!’, they'd all yell. But that time I didn't go outside to cry.
Noun
A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).
Usage- US usage
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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).