intj
Meaning 1
A call for calves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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Standard Lemma guide
sook
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/suːk/
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/sʊk/
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /sʉk/
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/suk/
intj
Meaning 2
A call for cattle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal
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intj
Meaning 3
A call for cattle or sheep.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Newfoundland
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noun
Meaning 4
Familiar name for a calf.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, rare
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noun
Meaning 5
Familiar name for a cow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 6
A poddy calf.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand
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noun
Meaning 7
A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Atlantic-Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang
Examples
- Don't be such a sook.
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noun
Meaning 8
A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Atlantic-Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, slang
Examples
- I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
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noun
Meaning 9
Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Examples
- 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 11⁄2d. — 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.
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noun
Meaning 10
A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Qualifier: eastern shore of Maryland
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verb
Meaning 11
Alternative spelling of suck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
Meaning 12
simple past of seek
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, nonstandard, past
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History
Etymology
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.
English from the 14th century, Scottish from the 19th century. From Old English sūcan (“to suck”). See suck.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Māori: tangiweto — crybaby
- Māori: tangimeme — crybaby
- Russian: нытик (nytik) — crybaby
- Russian: плакса (plaksa) — crybaby
- Ukrainian: скиглі́й (skyhlíj) — crybaby
- Ukrainian: пла́кса (pláksa) — crybaby