sook

[ sook ]

/ sʊk /

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noun

Australia and New Zealand. a timid, cowardly person, especially a young person; crybaby.

interjection

Midland U.S. (used to summon cows from the pasture).

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Origin of sook

1890–95; probably from earlier sense “calf reared by hand,” perhaps suck(-calf), with spelling representing N England, Scots pronunciation of suck (but earliest cited pronunciation of sook is (so̅o̅k))

Words nearby sook

Sonya, Soo, Soo Canals, Soochow, sooey, sook, sool, soon, sooner, sooner or later, Sooner State

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How to use sook in a sentence

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Kyung-sook Shin would like everybody to know that she knows exactly where her mother is.
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The photographic fantasies of In Sook Kim peek inside the private worlds of people who live in glass houses.
The Art of Voyeurism|Paul Laster|April 22, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Here on one side lay the sook of the jewellers, and on the opposite were arrayed the tiny stalls of the dealers in copper wares.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis

The ride from Beirut to Sook-el-Gharb is a very interesting one.
Eli and Sibyl Jones|Rufus Matthew Jones
The district was called Hidoodim, and the high mountain Sook.
Tent Work in Palestine|Claude Reignier Conder
These are sold in the sook at about six-pence a dozen, cotton included.
Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia|M. E. Hume-Griffith
What pleasure should she be able to sook out o' his keeping ding-ding-danging on about that woman?
Tommy and Grizel|J.M. Barrie

British Dictionary definitions for sook (1 of 2)

sook¹

/ (sʊk) /

noun

Southwest English dialect a baby

derogatory a coward

NZ informal a calf

Word Origin for sook

perhaps from Old English sūcan to suck, influenced by Welsh swci swead tame

British Dictionary definitions for sook (2 of 2)

sook²

souk

Scot

verb

to suck

noun

the act or an instance of sucking

a sycophant; toady

Word Origin for sook

Old English sūcan

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