Rook vs Sook - What's the difference?
rook | sook |
A European bird, Corvus frugilegus , of the crow family.
* Pennant
A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
(British) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
To cheat or swindle.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
(chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
(rare) A castle or other fortification.
mist; fog; roke
* 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 rook and sook
is that rook is skirt while sook is meal.rook
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) rok, roke, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The rook should be treated as the farmer's friend.
- (Wycherley)
Synonyms
* (swindler) swindler, cheatHypernyms
* (bird) bird * (firecracker) firecrackerVerb
(en verb)- Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.
Synonyms
* (sense) cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindleEtymology 2
From (etyl) roc, ultimately from (etyl) . Compare (roc).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (chesspiece) castleSee also
* *See also
* squabEtymology 3
From rookie .Etymology 4
Noun
(-)Etymology 5
Anagrams
* ----sook
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)."