sook
Australia and New Zealand. a timid, cowardly person, especially a young person; crybaby.
Midland U.S. (used to summon cows from the pasture.)
Origin of sook
1Words Nearby sook
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How to use sook in a sentence
Control Room sook Shoot Out -- some editorial changes and some VFX muzzle flashes.
Sony Emails Show How the Studio Plans to Censor Kim Jong Un Assassination Comedy ‘The Interview’ | William Boot | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKyung-sook Shin would like everybody to know that she knows exactly where her mother is.
Kyung-sook Shin Talks About Her Novel 'Please Look After Mom' | Liesl Schillinger | May 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe photographic fantasies of In sook Kim peek inside the private worlds of people who live in glass houses.
Here on one side lay the sook of the jewellers, and on the opposite were arrayed the tiny stalls of the dealers in copper wares.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisThe ride from Beirut to sook-el-Gharb is a very interesting one.
Eli and Sibyl Jones | Rufus Matthew Jones
The district was called Hidoodim, and the high mountain sook.
Tent Work in Palestine | Claude Reignier ConderThese are sold in the sook at about six-pence a dozen, cotton included.
Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia | M. E. Hume-GriffithWhat pleasure should she be able to sook out o' his keeping ding-ding-danging on about that woman?
Tommy and Grizel | J.M. Barrie
British Dictionary definitions for sook (1 of 2)
/ (sʊk) /
Southwest English dialect a baby
derogatory a coward
NZ informal a calf
Origin of sook
1British Dictionary definitions for sook (2 of 2)
to suck
the act or an instance of sucking
a sycophant; toady
Origin of sook
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