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chook-house

chook-house is the alternative form of chookhouse.

Meaning of chookhouse

Noun

chookhouse (plural chookhouses)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) A henhouse or chicken coop.
    • The hens were my witness to the ghost. They set up the sort of fuss and panic you hear when a snake enters the chookhouse late at night.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 178

Forms of chook-house

pluralchook-houses

Questions about chook-house

What is chook-house the alternative form of?
Chook-house is the alternative form of chookhouse.

Words near chook-house in the dictionary

  1. chook
  2. chook chaser
  3. chook chasers
  4. chook raffle
  5. chook raffles
  6. chook-house
  7. chookas
  8. Chookaszian
  9. Chookaszians
  10. chookers
  11. chookhouse

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