sook

Meanings

Verb

• Past of seek
• Alternate spelling of suck

Noun

• Familiar name for a calf.
• Familiar name for a cow.
• A cow or sheep.
• A poddy calf.
• A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
• A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
• Alternate spelling of souq.
• A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab, Callinectes sapidus.

Interjection

• A call for calves.
• A call for cattle.
• A call for cattle or sheep.

Related

Similar words

• sookie
• sook cow, sooky, sookie, sookow, sukow, suck, sucky, suck cow, sukey
• scaredy-cat, sissy

Origin

• English from the 14th century, Scottish from the 19th century. From Old English sūcan ("to suck"). See suck.
• Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.
• Probably from dialectal suck. Compare 19th century British slang sock, British dialect suckerel, Canadian suck, Canadian suck. From 1933.
• From Arabic سُوق ("market"). From 1926. See souq.
• Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.