sook
Familiar name for a cowFamiliar name for a cow.
Значення
значень: 6(Шотландія, рідковживане)Familiar name for a calf.
(США, діалектне)Familiar name for a cow.
(Австралія, Нова Зеландія)A poddy calf.
(Atlantic Canada, Австралія, Нова Зеландія, зневажливе, сленг)A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
Don't be such a sook.
нытикnytik, плаксаplaksa
скиглі́йskyhlíj, пла́ксаpláksa
(Atlantic Canada, Австралія, Нова Зеландія, сленг)A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
(США)A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).
Переклади
мов: 2Походження
Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 19Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.
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.
Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.
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