Meaning

4 senses

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal)A chicken, especially a hen.

  2. (Australia, New Zealand, informal)A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.

  3. (Australia, dated)A fool.

  4. (Australia, Northern England)Affectionate name for a person

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Like a chook with its head cut off.

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Origin

From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare

From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.

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Forms

plural: chooks
Singularchook
Pluralchooks

regular

Word family

8 related words
Derivedchookaschook chaserchookhousechookiechookishchook rafflechookyardturbo chook

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
choleracholesterolchompchooseA1choosy
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