Etymology 1

Quotations

• 1832, Scottish proverbs, collected and arranged by A. Henderson, p 32:

  Ae hour's cauld will sook out seven years' heat.

• 1864, William Duncan Latto: Tammas Bodkin: Or, the Humours of a Scottish Tailor, p 378:

  Tibbie an' Andro bein' at that moment in the act o' whirlin' roond us were sooked into the vortex an' upset likewise, so that here were haill four o's sprawlin' i' the floor at ance.

• 1903, John Stevenson: Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting, p 182:

  You pursed your mooth in shape like O,
  And sook'd the air in, might and main

Etymology 2

Noun

1. Familiar name for a calf.
2. Familiar name for a cow.
3. A cow or sheep.
4. A poddy calf.

Interjection

1. A call for calves.
2. A call for cattle.
3. A call for cattle or sheep.

Synonyms

• sookie
• sook cow, sookow, sukow
• suck, suck cow
• sucky
• sukey

Etymology 3

Noun

1. A shy person, wimp, complainer, coward, or crybaby.

   Don't be such a sook.

2. A sulk or complaint.

   I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.

Synonyms

• sookie, sookies
• sooky
• sooky baby

Etymology 4