chook
/t͡ʃʊk/
chook noun: a chicken, especially a hen.
Noun
chook (plural chooks)
- A chicken, especially a hen.
- Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke′s Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 683
- This little book, with its meticulous pencil drawings of chooks in mechanical contraptions and photos to show the machine in operation with a white leghorn called Gregory Peck, is evidence of both the sadism inspired by the chook′s comparatively flightless fate and the laughter we use to defend...2006, Judith Brett, The Chook in the Australian Unconscious, in Peter Beilharz, Robert Manne, Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, page 329
- A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
- A fool.
- Affectionate name for a person
Interjection
- A call made to chickens.
- An imitation of the call of a chicken.
- Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.1875 July 23, Sydney Punch, page 1, column 1
Examples of chook in a sentence
- She decided to dig her way under the fence into their chook house and had great fun running around and biting the necks of about eight chooks and leaving them half-dead and bleeding.2011, Helen Maczkowiack, An Awkward Fit, page 21:
- Letting your chooks clean the compost of curl grubs will make it fairly safe to put on the garden.2025 June 7, The Australian Weekend Magazine, Australia, page 45, column 1:
Forms of chook
| plural | chooks |
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Origin of chook
From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.
Words formed from chook
- chookas
- chook chaser
- chookers
- chookhouse
- chookie
- chookish
- chook pen
- chook raffle
- chook run
- chook shed
- chook wheel
- chookyard
- like a headless chook
- may one's chooks turn into emus and kick one's dunny down
- turbo chook
Phrases with chook
Words that rhyme with chook
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- brooke
- logbook
- stook
- jook
- mistook
- overcook
- shook
- sook
- talk like a book
- took
- undercook
- abrook
- betook
- bring to book
- by hook and by crook
- by hook or by crook
- checkbook
- cheque book
- chequebook
- Corner Brook
- forsook
- Glenburnie-Birchy Head-Shoal Brook
- gook
- Hughes Brook
- Knook
- log book
- log-book
- Main Brook
- mook
- overtook
- partook
- quook
- schnook
- shnook
- South Brook
- Steady Brook
- uncrook
- undertook
Questions about chook
- What does chook mean?
- Chook means a chicken, especially a hen.
- How do you use chook in a sentence?
- She decided to dig her way under the fence into their chook house and had great fun running around and biting the necks of about eight chooks and leaving them half-dead and bleeding.
- What part of speech is chook?
- Chook can be a noun or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce chook?
- Chook is pronounced /t͡ʃʊk/.
- What is the plural of chook?
- The plural of chook is chooks.
Words near chook in the dictionary
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