sook

FREQ #16036

n. 胆小鬼

发音

AU
/suːk/
/suk/
/sʊk/
其它 /sʉk/
SCOT /sʉk/

词形变化

sooks 复数 sooks 三单 sooking 现在分词 sooked 过去式 sooked 过去分词

别名

suck suke

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Familiar name for a calf.

    苏格兰 罕用
  2. 2.

    Familiar name for a cow.

    美国 方言
  3. 3.

    A poddy calf.

    澳大利亚 新西兰
  4. 1.

    A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 贬义 俚语

    Don't be such a sook.

  5. 2.

    A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 俚语

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

  6. 1.

    Alternative spelling of souq (“Arab market”).

    1964, Qantas Airways, Qantas Airways Australia, Volumes 30-31, page 11, Against these riches you may buy a cup of the bitter, herbed black final coffee from a street vendor for ten piasters — about 1½d. — and step through an arch into the next sook devoted to cheap shoes and vegetables and as full of the turbaned poor as an Arabian Nights reality.

  7. 1.

    A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).

    美国
v.
  1. 1.

    Alternative spelling of suck.

  2. 1.

    simple past of seek

interj.
  1. 1.

    A call for calves.

    苏格兰

    Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie, Sook calf, sook calf! […]

  2. 2.

    A call for cattle.

    美国 方言
  3. 3.

    A call for cattle or sheep.

相关短语

词源

Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.

来源:wiktionary