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   Variante di suckAlternative spelling of suck.

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

   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.

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

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   raroFamiliar name for a calf.

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   Familiar name for a cow.

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   A poddy calf.

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   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.

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

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   A call for cattle.

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   A call for cattle or sheep.

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   gergoA 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.

   ‘What a sook! Look at her cry!’ ‘Yeah, look at the Abo cry!’

   Only sooks ask guides how far there is to go.

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   gergoA 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.

sostantivo

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   Variante di souqAlternative 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.

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   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).

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   Anche una forma di seeksimple past of seek

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