sook

Etymology 1
English from the 14th century, Scottish from the 19th century. From. See.

Etymology 2
Probably from. Compare (attested 1838),  (1844),  (1850); sook from 1906.

Noun

 * 1)  Familiar name for a calf.
 * 2)  Familiar name for a cow.
 * 3)  A poddy calf.

Interjection

 * 1)  A call for calves.
 * 2) * 1947, John Avery Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, |%22sooks%22+poddy+OR+calf+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22sook%22|%22sooks%22+poddy+OR+calf+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=vjAZoGzgIi&sig=w-jEXU9PgJSgfOUJs11CR_vHWgY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=g8dZUOu-I-mviQetu4GYCA&redir_esc=y page 265,
 * “You get outside the cowlot gate and start calling like this:
 * “Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie,
 * Sook calf, sook calf!”
 * 1)  A call for cattle.
 * 2)  A call for cattle or sheep.
 * 1)  A call for cattle or sheep.

Synonyms

 * , sooky, sookie, sookow, sukow, suck, sucky, suck cow, sukey

Etymology 3
Probably from dialectal. Compare 19th century British slang, British dialect , Canadian , Canadian. From 1933.

Noun

 * 1)  A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
 * Don't be such a sook.
 * 1)  A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
 * I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
 * 1)  A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
 * I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
 * I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.

Translations

 * Maori: tangiweto, tangimeme
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian: скиглі́й, пла́кса

Etymology 4
From. From 1926. See.

Noun

 * 1) * 1964, Qantas Airways, Qantas Airways Australia, Volumes 30-31, |%22sooks%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22sook%22|%22sooks%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=FWQSKe-YHI&sig=lPw_hGJe1B5Eg_TRoi6tgZQUWRY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=G51ZUK2GMo6SiAfn8oCYBQ&redir_esc=y 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.
 * 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.

Etymology 5
origin. From, attested as early as 1948.

Noun

 * 1)  A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab.

Noun

 * 1) thing, object
 * 2) sort, kind, type, variety