Examples
“Four couples came to the modest little party; a young doctor and his wife, another naval officer, a cheerful young man described as a chook farmer whose way of life was a mystery to the American, and the young owner of a tiny engineering works.”
“On August 3rd, 2004 chook aka kim (not verified) says:”
“On August 2nd, 2004 chook aka kim (not verified) says:”
“It makes me want to be a 'chook' fancy having such a beautiful home.”
“Put the end of one strip into the jaws of your paper crimper, gently squeeze then "chook" the whole strip through the crimper.”
“Removing the skin as Lenny does in this video might a familiar process to people who've basted a "chook" by getting their hands under the skin to rub a mixture of butter, garlic, herbs and what-not on the flesh.”
“Unless you plan to herd us into an empty chook pen or the hold of the hovercraft.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » Let the word go forth from this time and this place.
“The very hypothesis of AGW is dead in the water in OZ (though its still floundering around like a chook with its head cut off because it doesn't quite know yet that it is, in fact, dead!)”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“I'm contemplating trying to actually cook today, rather than just chucking a chunk o 'chook in the cooker.”
“Akshuly, ai wuz reedign tihs arkticlol bowt Dazy teh braiv chook:”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chook’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Hooks
hook, Captain Hook, shook, grappling hook, meat hook, pruning hook, hooks, hook 'em horns, Hook 'em Horns, sky-hook, hook, line, and s..., hook, line and si... and 66 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Fowl Words
Odd-sounding chicken breeds & chicken-related words
bantam, broody, Chantecler, Australorp, Red Shaver, Campine, Araucana, Cochin, Nankin, Silkie, Cubalaya, chook and 33 more...
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pax australiana
first in, best dr..., chalk and cheese, chuck a sickie, banana bender, sandgroper, croweater, budgie smuggler, bludge, bathers, swimmers, bogan, buck's night and 73 more...
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Cloudstreet
From Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. Expect lots of new-to-me words and/or just pleasing words encountered in this book, perhaps mostly Australian slang.
chiack, staggerjuice, thunderbox, patterson's curse, cactus, dreckly, compo, hayburner, mulie, carn, dag, grizzle and 34 more...
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Australian Derivation ... or, you kno...
Words I heard there. Or from Australians.
didjeridoo, budgerigar, kangaroo, wombat, kookaburra, echidna, koala, dreamtime, matilda, waltzing matilda, billabong, coolibah and 44 more...
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gayle's favourites list
Words I love the sound, meaning and/or impact of. Words I use often.
gorgeous, bastard, fuck, lovely, perfect, imagine, jest, bile, elegant, decayed, spunk, shiney and 9 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chook.
knitandpurl "By May, when a chill had come into the nights and the street was subdued and indoorsy after dark with the Lambs' chooks racked along their perch like mumbling hats, and the air so still you could hear the sea miles off and the river tide eating at the land, Lester and Oriel went to bed bonesore but grateful."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 63 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition
Mar 30, 2010