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chook

  • /t͡ʃʊk/

Rhymes with -ʊk

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

noun chooks

  1. Australia, New Zealand, informal A chicken, especially a hen. Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
  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

interjection

  1. Australia A call made to chickens.
  2. An imitation of the call of a chicken. Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.

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intj call made to chickens

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@misc{chook_2026,
  title = {chook},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chook},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}