sook

== English == === Etymology 1 === English from the 14th century, Scottish from the 19th century. From Old English sūcan (“to suck”). See suck. ==== Verb ==== sook (third-person singular simple present sooks, present participle sooking, simple past and past participle sooked) Alternative spelling of suck. === Etymology 2 === Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906. ==== Alternative forms ==== suck suke ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /suːk/, /sʊk/ (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /sʉk/ Rhymes: -uːk, -ʊk ==== Noun ==== sook (plural sooks) (Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf. (US dialectal) Familiar name for a cow. (Australia, New Zealand) A poddy calf. ===== Synonyms ===== (poddy calf): sookie (diminutive) ==== Interjection ==== sook (Scotland) A call for calves. 1947, John Avery Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, page 265, “You get outside the cowlot gate and start calling like this: “Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie, Sook calf, sook calf! […] ” (US dialectal) A call for cattle. (Newfoundland) A call for cattle or sheep. ===== Synonyms ===== (call): sook cow, sooky, sookie, sookow, sukow, suck, sucky, suck cow, sukey === Etymology 3 === 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. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /sʊk/ Rhymes: -ʊk ==== Noun ==== sook (plural sooks) (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward. (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang) A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking. ===== Synonyms ===== (timid person): scaredy-cat, sissy ===== Derived terms ===== sookey (adjective) sooky (adjective) sooky la-la ===== Related terms ===== sookie, sookies, sooky baby (Atlantic Canada), (Australia) ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 4 === From Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”). From 1926. See souq. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /suk/ Rhymes: -uːk ==== Noun ==== sook (plural sooks) Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”). 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 1½d. — 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. === Etymology 5 === Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /sʊk/ Rhymes: -ʊk ==== Noun ==== sook (plural sooks) (US, eastern shore of Maryland) A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus). === Etymology 6 === ==== Verb ==== sook (nonstandard) simple past of seek === Anagrams === soko == Yurok == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʂɔːk/ === Noun === sook thing, object sort, kind, type, variety