sook
/suːk/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
Northern Ireland/sʉk/
sook is the alternative spelling of suck.
sook is the alternative spelling of souq.
sook is the simple past of seek.
Noun (1)
sook (plural sooks)
Interjection
- A call for calves.
- Mother actually turned her back on that sheep and began dabbling her hand in the milk, saying, “Sook, calfy, sook, calfy!” seductively while the calf gave her the evil eue and walked backward.1919, Strickland Gillilan, A Sample Case of Humor, page 47
- Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie,
- Sook calf, sook calf! […]1947, John Avery Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, page 265, “You get outside the cowlot gate and start calling like this
- A call for cattle.
- A call for cattle or sheep.
Noun (2)
IPA/sʊk/
sook (plural sooks)
- A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
- Don't be such a sook.
- You must think I'm a sook, hey? Here I am complaining about my dad's job and my curfew and your dad cheated on your mum. You put things into perspective for me.2006, Randa Abdel-Fattah, Ten Things I Hate About Me, unnumbered page
- Synonyms:
- scaredy-cat, sissy
- A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
- I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
- ‘Have a sook! Have a sook!’, they'd all yell. But that time I didn't go outside to cry.2002, June Duncan Owen, Mixed Matches: Interracial Marriage in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, page 87
Meaning of suck
Verb
suck (third-person singular simple present sucks, present participle sucking, simple past and past participle sucked)
- To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.
- To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk.
- To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
- That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i
- Synonyms:
- aspirate
- To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
- And ſince we all haue ſuckt on[e] wholſome aire, / And with the ſame proportion of Elements, / Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, / Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
Meaning of souq
Noun
souq (plural souqs)
- A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods.
Noun (3)
IPA/sʊk/
sook (plural sooks)
- A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).
- The life cycle of the crab in the bay causes a preponderance of adult males (jimmy crabs) to occur in the waters of the upper bay while conversely a concentration of adult females (sook crabs) occurs in the more saline waters near the mouth of the bay (table 2).1948, John Cleary Pearson, Fluctuations in the Abundance of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, page 4
Synonyms of sook
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Forms of sook
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | sooks |
| present participle | sooking |
| past participle | sooked |
| past | sooked |
| Noun | |
| plural | sooks |
| alternative form | suck |
| alternative form | suke |
Origin of sook
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 as is Etymology 1 above. Compare 19th century British slang sock (“overgrown baby”), British dialect suckerel (“suckling foal, unweaned child”), Canadian suck (“crybaby”), Canadian suck (“sycophant”). From 1933.
Words formed from sook
- sookey
- sooky
- sooky la-la
Phrases with sook
Words that rhyme with sook
Questions about sook
- What does sook mean?
- Sook means familiar name for a calf.
- What is sook the alternative spelling of?
- Sook is the alternative spelling of suck.
- What part of speech is sook?
- Sook can be a noun or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce sook?
- Sook is pronounced /suːk/.
- What is the plural of sook?
- The plural of sook is sooks.
Words near sook in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sook (page history and authors); suck (page history and authors); souq (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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