Gook vs Sook - What's the difference?
gook | sook |
(slang, vulgar, pejorative, offensive, ethnic slur) A person from the Far East, Oceania or Southeast Asia, in particular a Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Korean person.
(informal) Grime or mud.
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* 1832 , Scottish proverbs, collected and arranged by A. Henderson ,
* 1864 , William Duncan Latto: Tammas Bodkin: Or, the Humours of a Scottish Tailor ,
* 1903 , John Stevenson: Pat M?Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting ,
(Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf.
Familiar name for a cow.
(Newfoundland) A cow or sheep.
(Australia, New Zealand) A poddy calf.
(US, Eastern Shore of Maryland) A female Chesapeake Bay blue crab.
(Scotland) A call for calves.
* 1919 , , A Sample Case of Humor ,
* 1947 , , Adventures of a Ballad Hunter ,
*:: “Sook' calf, '''sook''' calf, ' sook calfie,
*:: Sook' calf, ' sook calf!”
A call for cattle.
(Newfoundland) A call for cattle or sheep.
(Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
* 2006 , ,
* 2007 , Jan Teagle Kapetas, Lubra Lips, Lubra Lips: Reflections on my Face'', Maureen Perkins (editor), ''Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia ,
* 2008 , Kieran Kelly, Aspiring: Mountain climbing is no cure for middle age , Pan MacMillan Australia,
(Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang) A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
* 2002 , June Duncan Owen, Mixed Matches: Interracial Marriage in Australia , University of New South Wales Press,
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* 1964 , Qantas Airways, Qantas Airways Australia , Volumes 30-31,
The mature female blue crab, .
*1948 , John Cleary Pearson, Fluctuations in the Abundance of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay , U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, page
As nouns the difference between gook and sook
is that gook is a person from the Far East, Oceania or Southeast Asia, in particular a Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Korean person while sook is Familiar name for a calf.As a verb sook is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.As an interjection sook is
a call for calves.gook
English
Etymology 1
Use traced to U.S. Marines in Philippines in early 20th century.Dictionary.com]Pearson, Kim, "[http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/gook.htm Gook". Earliest recorded example is dated 1920.Seligman, Herbert J., "
The Conquest of Haiti", The Nation, July 10, 1920. * Folk etymology suggests that during the Korean War, young Korean children would point at U.S. soldiers and shout ", guk) itself simply means "country". This explanation ignores the fact that there are many examples of the word's use that pre-date the Korean War.
Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* In the US, gook refers particularly to a Vietnamese person in the context of the Vietnam War, and particularly to the Viet Cong. It is generally considered highly offensive, on a par with nigger.Etymology 2
Possible blend of goop and gunk.Noun
(en noun)citation
Derived terms
* gooky * gook upSee also
* gook wagonsook
English
Etymology 1
English from 14thC, Scottish from 19thC. From (etyl) . See suck.Verb
(en verb)p 32:
- Ae hour?s cauld will sook out seven years? heat.
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.
p 182:
- You pursed your mooth in shape like O,
- And sook?d the air in, might and main
Etymology 2
Probably from (suck). Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.Alternative forms
* suck * sukeNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (poddy calf) sookie (diminutive)Interjection
(en interjection)page 47,
- 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.
page 265,
- “You get outside the cowlot gate and start calling like this:
Synonyms
* (call) sook cow,sookie, sookow, sukow, suck, sucky, suck cow, sukeyEtymology 3
Probably from dialectal suck. Compare 19thC British slang . From 1933.Noun
(en noun)- Don?t be such a sook .
unnumbered page,
- 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.
page 31,
- ‘What a sook ! Look at her cry!’
- ‘Yeah, look at the Abo cry!’
page 233,
- Only sooks ask guides how far there is to go.
- I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
page 87,
- ‘Have a sook'! Have a ' sook !’, they?d all yell. But that time I didn?t go outside to cry.
Synonyms
* (timid person) scaredy-cat, sissyDerived terms
* sookey (adjective) * sooky (adjective) * sooky la-laEtymology 4
From (etyl) . From 1926. See (souq).Noun
(en noun)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.
Etymology 5
Origin unknown. From (Chesapeake Bay), attested as early as 1948.Noun
(en noun)4:
- "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)."
