Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. alternative spelling of suck.
- n. Scotland, rare Familiar name for a calf.
- n. Familiar name for a cow.
- n. Newfoundland A cow or sheep.
- n. Australia, New Zealand A poddy calf.
- n. US A female Chesapeake Bay blue crab.
- interj. Scotland A call for calves.
- interj. A call for cattle.
- interj. Newfoundland A call for cattle or sheep.
- n. Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang, derogatory A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
- n. Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
- n. alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”)..
- n. The mature female blue crab, Callinectes sapidus.
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. From 1950. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Most of the time they're like "ooooh my hand hurts * sook sook* I need an xray, it's brooooken" ...”
“Stepdad told girl to stop being a sook and that sex abuse was 'good for her' A MAN who told his teenage step-daughter to stop being a "sook" because the sexual abuse he was subjecting her to was "good for her" was today jailed for six years.”
“Stepdad told girl to stop being a sook and that sex abuse was 'good for her' A MAN who told his teenage stepdaughter to stop being a "sook" because the sexual abuse he was subjecting her to was "good for her" was today jailed for six years.”
“I'd bet good money that just about everyone having a sook will be lining up opening day.”
“It depends on each financial investor's appetite, but those which have a high-risk, high-return investment strategy may have joined the fund," said Kang Kwang-sook at Samsung Securities.”
The Wall Street Journal: Investors Approve Daewoo Stake Sale
“I loved the three lead performances by Kang-ho Song, Ok-bin Kim and Hae-sook Kim apologies if I have typed their names incorrectly, but I am merely going by what IMDb tells me.”
“Kim steals Moon-sook away from the dork, then pushes her away, then regrets his actions and takes up with another vacationer who supposedly resembles her, and then deals with Moon-sook again when she tracks him down back at the resort.”
“Kim drags along his dorky production designer (Kim Tae-woo), who is married but who also happens to have a girlfriend, a composer named Moon-sook (Ko Hyun-Joung).”
“The question is: Would an Author who puts down, dare i say it, such a great series ( THREE) of books, who had such a gapping effin holes waiting to be filled in ( prequel), would they be called a girls blouse, sook, sisy, wimp, if they DID NOT DO A PREQUEL!”
“By Sir Senator FKN HAVOCK, October 12, 2009 @ 7:08 pm quokka..why does girls blouse and sook come to mind”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sook’.
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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Like True Newfoundlanders
A place for me to store my Newfoundland English, as I learn it. (Might take a while.)
screech-in, screech, moose milk, bucklish, buckly, buckaloon, buccaloon, newfoundland sock, rum runner, scravel, newfoundland, oonchook and 112 more...
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Strine
Australianisms & other Oz-related vocabulamary.
budgie smugglers, arvo, dingo's breakfast, prang, banana bender, bingle, white pointer, u.s., reg grundies, larrikin, jumbuck, cobber and 122 more...
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jmead's Words
termagant, harridan, exegesis, refulgent, preternatural, bloviate, punctilio, sunder, sook, tractable, imprecation, limerence and 1 more...
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other people's dialects
stocious, clype, stramash, langers, reet, sneeped, logy, glakit, halleyracket, breenge, sook, a face like the m... and 7 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Interesting, frindley. I hadn't heard those usages or known that it was a term in use in Stri and NZ. You did remind me of this word, though, that I know is used in Newfoundland. I've heard it defined as someone who's kind of an idiot, but the only reason I heard of the word in the first place is that it's the name of a folk tune, "The Sook." Pretty awesome tune. May 8, 2008
frindley Just in case you were mislead by the usage example on fossick, sook isn't always used harshly. It can also be used kindly and can even serve as a term of endearment, as in these examples taken from a list of NZ and Australian words:
sook: kindly description of someone who is being silly, or behaving like a softy or scaredy cat. As in:- "you're being a sook"... "just a big sook" and so on... More often than not the phrase is used as a term of endearment.
To this can be added the idea of teariness or being prone to crying, hence "sooky baby". May 8, 2008