sooks

Noun (1)

sook (plural sooks)

1. (Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf.
2. (US, dialectal) Familiar name for a cow.
3. (Australia, New Zealand) A poddy calf.

   Synonyms:

   sookie

Noun (2)

sook (plural sooks)

1. (Atlantic-Canada, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang) A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
   • Don't be such a sook.

   Synonyms:

   scaredy-cat, sissy

2. (Atlantic-Canada, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
   • I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.

Noun (3)

sook (plural sooks)

1. (US, eastern shore of Maryland) 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

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