Meaning of sook | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Familiar name for a calf.
   Scotland, rare
2. A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
   Atlantic-Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang
3. Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”).
   alt-of, alternative
4. A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).
   US
5. Familiar name for a cow.
   US, dialectal
6. A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
   Atlantic-Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, slang
7. A poddy calf.
   Australia, New-Zealand

Equivalents

Examples

“Don't be such a sook.”

“You must think I'm a sook, hey? Here I am complaining about my dad's job and my curfew and your dad cheated on your mum. You put things into perspective for me.”

“‘What a sook! Look at her cry!’ ‘Yeah, look at the Abo cry!’”

“Only sooks ask guides how far there is to go.”

“I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.”

“‘Have a sook! Have a sook!’, they'd all yell. But that time I didn't go outside to cry.”

“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 of the turbaned poor as an Arabian Nights reality.”

“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).”

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