sook
Familiar name for a cowFamiliar name for a cow.
Meaning
6 senses(Scotland, rare)Familiar name for a calf.
(US, dialectal)Familiar name for a cow.
(Australia, New Zealand)A poddy calf.
(Atlantic Canada, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang)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, Australia, New Zealand, slang)A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
(US)A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
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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