chook

American  

[chook, chook] / tʃʊk, tʃuk /

Also chookie

noun

1. Australian. a hen.

2. Slang. a woman.

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interjection

1. (used as a call for poultry or pigs.)

chook British  

/ tʃʊk /

verb

1. See jook

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noun

1. Also called: chookie.  informal a hen or chicken

2. informal a woman, esp a more mature one

interjection

1. a exclamation used to attract chickens

2. he is incapable of carrying out even the simplest of tasks

Etymology

Origin of chook

1885–90; compare British dialect chuck, chook call to poultry, chuck ³, chicken

Example Sentences

While other backyard traditions such as home dairies and pig-keeping have diminished, the backyard chook has stood the test of time.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

He lacked "even the organisational skills to run a chook raffle, let alone a coup", commentator Paula Matthewson wrote.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2018

Walsh goes on to tell the Woody Allen joke from the end of Annie Hall about the guy whose brother thinks he’s a chook: “I would turn him in but I need the eggs.”

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2015

W'ile de banjos dey go plunka, plunka, plunk, We'll dance tel de ole flo' shake; W'ile de feet keep a-goin' chooka, chooka, chook, We'll dance tel de day done break.

From Fifty years & Other Poems by Matthews, Brander