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noun suːksʊksuk US A female crab. Example sentencesExamples - A mature (adult) female blue crab, known as a "Sook" to watermen, is identified as having an inverted "U" or bell-shaped apron and red-tipped claws.
Origin 1950s: of unknown origin. noun suːksʊksuk Australian, Canadian, NZ informal 1A person lacking spirit or self-confidence; a coward. Example sentencesExamples - He was impatient with bores, sooks and nags; he was full of ideas and energies, and hopeless at small details.
- Apparently tall thin men who have lost an arm in a machinery accident are not sooks.
- I can be a moper and a downright sook if left to my own devices at times.
- Says everyone's favourite sook - ‘When I break up with my girlfriend, everybody has to know about it.’
- He was in fine sook form last year, blaming Brisbane for being better.
2A hand-reared calf. Example sentencesExamples - He tried to soothe the heifer's anxiety with a calm voice. "Sook now. Sook."
Derivatives adjective Canadian, NZ, Australian informal It invariably comes to this with sooky Islamic culture. Example sentencesExamples - She's all weird and sooky at the moment.
- He was a show pony, he was soft, selfish, sooky, playing for frees and never thinking of the team.
- Just like your father, he has become very sooky, house bound and clingy.
- She says they all have different personalities, some are a bit sooky, particularly the grey kangaroos, and then some are only too happy to get out of the pouch and jump around.
Origin Mid 19th century: dialect variant of the noun suck. nounsuk US A female crab. Example sentencesExamples - A mature (adult) female blue crab, known as a "Sook" to watermen, is identified as having an inverted "U" or bell-shaped apron and red-tipped claws.
Origin 1950s: of unknown origin. nounsuk Australian, Canadian, NZ informal 1A person lacking spirit or self-confidence; a coward. Example sentencesExamples - He was in fine sook form last year, blaming Brisbane for being better.
- I can be a moper and a downright sook if left to my own devices at times.
- Says everyone's favourite sook - ‘When I break up with my girlfriend, everybody has to know about it.’
- Apparently tall thin men who have lost an arm in a machinery accident are not sooks.
- He was impatient with bores, sooks and nags; he was full of ideas and energies, and hopeless at small details.
2A hand-reared calf. Example sentencesExamples - He tried to soothe the heifer's anxiety with a calm voice. "Sook now. Sook."
Origin Mid 19th century: dialect variant of the noun suck. |