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sook¹

Where it comes from

English from the 14th century, Scottish from the 19th century. From Old English sūcan (“to suck”). See suck.

verb sooks · sooking · sooked

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of suck Ae hour's cauld will sook out seven years' heat.

sook²

  • /suːk/
  • /sʊk/
  • /sʉk/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Rhymes with -uːk, -ʊk

Where it comes from

Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.

noun sooks · suck · suke

  1. Scotland, rare Familiar name for a calf.
  2. US, dialectal Familiar name for a cow.
  3. Australia, New Zealand A poddy calf.

    Similar: sookie

interjection suck · suke

  1. Scotland A call for calves. Mother actually turned her back on that sheep and began dabbling her hand in the milk, saying, “Sook, calfy, sook, calfy!” seductively while the calf gave her the evil eue and walked backward.
  2. US, dialectal A call for cattle.
  3. Newfoundland A call for cattle or sheep.

Similar: sook cow, sooky, sookie, sookow, sukow, suck, sucky, suck cow, sukey

sook³

  • /sʊk/

Rhymes with -ʊk

Where it comes from

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.

noun sooks

  1. 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.

    Similar: scaredy-cat, sissy

  2. 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.

sook⁴

  • /suk/

Rhymes with -uːk

Where it comes from

From Arabic سُوق (sūq, “market”). From 1926. See souq.

noun sooks

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”). 1964, Qantas Airways, Qantas Airways Australia, Volumes 30-31, page 11, Against these riches you may buy a cup of the bitter, herbed black final coffee from a street vendor for ten piasters — about 1½d. — and step through an arch into the next sook devoted to cheap shoes and vegetables and as full o

sook⁵

  • /sʊk/

Rhymes with -ʊk

Where it comes from

Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.

noun sooks

  1. US A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus). The life cycle of the crab in the bay causes a preponderance of adult males (jimmy crabs) to occur in the waters of the upper bay while conversely a concentration of adult females (sook crabs) occurs in the more saline waters near the mouth of the bay (table 2).

sook⁶

verb

  1. nonstandard, past simple past of seek

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interjection

Similar: sook cow, sooky, sookie, sookow, sukow, suck, sucky, suck cow, sukey

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@misc{sook_2026,
  title = {sook},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sook},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}