Chook
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /t͡ʃʊk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chook is a noun meaning (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.
Meaning
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.
More Meanings
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
- (Australia, dated) A fool.
- (Australia, Northern England) Affectionate name for a person
- (Australia) A call made to chickens.
- An imitation of the call of a chicken.
Example Sentences
Letting your chooks clean the compost of curl grubs will make it fairly safe to put on the garden.
Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.
Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
She decided to dig her way under the fence into their chook house and had great fun running around and biting the necks of about eight chooks and leaving them half-dead and bleeding. The neighbour was furious, and unfortunately it was Dad′s birthday, so when he arrived home from work, Mum said ‘Happy birthday and^([sic]) darling. Guess what? Your dog has half-killed most of the neighbour′s chooks.
Word Forms
- chooks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cluck, chockie, chiack, choof, chin, cackle.
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