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Chook vs Choon - What's the difference?

chook | choon |

As nouns the difference between chook and choon

is that chook is (australia|new zealand|slang) a hen; a cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking while choon is (british|nonstandard) a song or track, especially one that is catchy.

chook

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A hen; a cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
  • * 2005 , , The Complete Burke?s Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets , page 683,
    • Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
  • * 2006', Judith Brett, ''The '''Chook in the Australian Unconscious'', in Peter Beilharz, Robert Manne, ''Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays , page 329,
    • This little book, with its meticulous pencil drawings of chooks' in mechanical contraptions and photos to show the machine in operation with a white leghorn called Gregory Peck, is evidence of both the sadism inspired by the ' chook ?s comparatively flightless fate and the laughter we use to defend ourselves against the knowledge of that sadism.
  • * 2011 , Helen Maczkowiackpeglerpegler, An Awkward Fit , page 21,
    • She decided to dig her way under the fence into their chook house and had great fun running around and biting the necks of about eight chooks' and leaving them half-dead and bleeding. The neighbour was furious, and unfortunately it was Dad?s birthday, so when he arrived home from work, Mum said ‘Happy birthday and(sic) darling. Guess what? Your dog has half-killed most of the neighbour?s ' chooks .’
  • (Australia, dated) A fool.

    • Derived terms

    * chook chaser * chookhouse * chook poop * chook raffle * chook wheel * chookyard

    choon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, nonstandard) A song or track, especially one that is catchy.
  • * 2000 , E Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey, Colin Channer, Marcus Major, Got to Be Real: Four Original Love Stories
    • And the music was so sweet, see because we just knew the choon . And we could have played a hundred choons that night...
  • * 2003 , Colin Channer, Waiting in Vain
    • Behind her, beneath the thatch-roofed pavilions, the guests were skanking to old rock-steady choons and slamming dominoes on plastic tables...
  • * 2005 , David Else, Oliver Berry, England
    • A sleek cosmopolitan club with mainstream choons .