Sook
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /suːk/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sook is a verb meaning (Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf.
Meaning
(Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf.
More Meanings
- (US dialectal) Familiar name for a cow.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A poddy calf.
- (Scotland) A call for calves.
- (US dialectal) A call for cattle.
- (Newfoundland) A call for cattle or sheep.
- (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
- Alternative spelling of suck.
Example Sentences
Don't be such a sook.
Ae hour's cauld will sook out seven years' heat.
Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie, Sook calf, sook calf! […]
‘What a sook! Look at her cry!’ ‘Yeah, look at the Abo cry!’
Word Forms
- sooks
- sooking
- sooked
Synonyms for sook
Depending on context, synonyms include sooky, suck, sucky, scaredy-cat, sissy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include suh, ook, surname, broo, cowie, kyloe.
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Sources & Attribution
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