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sook | crab |

As nouns the difference between sook and crab

is that sook is meal while crab is a crustacean of the infraorder brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace or crab can be the crab apple or wild apple or crab can be the tree species , native of south america or crab can be short for carabiner.

As a verb crab is

to fish for crabs or crab can be (obsolete) to irritate, make surly or sour.

sook

English

Etymology 1

English from 14thC, Scottish from 19thC. From (etyl) . See suck.

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1832 , Scottish proverbs, collected and arranged by A. Henderson , p 32:
    • Ae hour?s cauld will sook out seven years? heat.
  • * 1864 , William Duncan Latto: Tammas Bodkin: Or, the Humours of a Scottish Tailor , 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.
  • * 1903 , John Stevenson: Pat M?Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting , 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 * suke

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Synonyms
    * (poddy calf) sookie (diminutive)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Scotland) A call for calves.
  • * 1919 , , A Sample Case of Humor , 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.
  • * 1947 , , Adventures of a Ballad Hunter , page 265,
    • “You get outside the cowlot gate and start calling like this:
  • *:: “Sook' calf, '''sook''' calf, ' sook calfie,
  • *:: Sook' calf, ' sook calf!”
  • A call for cattle.
  • (Newfoundland) A call for cattle or sheep.
    • Synonyms
    * (call) sook cow,sookie, sookow, sukow, suck, sucky, suck cow, sukey

    Etymology 3

    Probably from dialectal suck. Compare 19thC British slang . From 1933.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
    • Don?t be such a sook .
  • * 2006 , , 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.
  • * 2007 , Jan Teagle Kapetas, Lubra Lips, Lubra Lips: Reflections on my Face'', Maureen Perkins (editor), ''Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia , page 31,
    • ‘What a sook ! Look at her cry!’
    ‘Yeah, look at the Abo cry!’
  • * 2008 , Kieran Kelly, Aspiring: Mountain climbing is no cure for middle age , Pan MacMillan Australia, page 233,
    • Only sooks ask guides how far there is to go.
  • (Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang) A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
    • I was so upset that I went home and had a sook about it.
  • * 2002 , June Duncan Owen, Mixed Matches: Interracial Marriage in Australia , University of New South Wales Press, page 87,
    • ‘Have a sook'! Have a ' sook !’, they?d all yell. But that time I didn?t go outside to cry.
    Related terms
    * sookie, sookies, sooky, sooky baby (Atlantic Canada)
    Synonyms
    * (timid person) scaredy-cat, sissy
    Derived terms
    * sookey (adjective) * sooky (adjective) * sooky la-la

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) . From 1926. See (souq).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • .
  • * 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.

    Etymology 5

    Origin unknown. From (Chesapeake Bay), attested as early as 1948.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 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)."

    crab

    English

    (wikipedia crab)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) crabbe, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
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  • A bad-tempered person.
  • .
  • (label) A playing card with the rank of three.
  • (label) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
  • A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
  • * 1915 , , (Of Human Bondage) , :
    • -- "I suppose you wouldn't like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging." -- "I wouldn't mind," said Philip. -- "It's at Farnley, in Dorsetshire. Doctor South. You'd have to go down at once; his assistant has developed mumps. I believe it's a very pleasant place." There was something in the secretary's manner that puzzled Philip. It was a little doubtful. -- "What's the crab in it?" he asked.
  • * 1940 , (Horace Annesley Vachell), Little Tyrannies
    • Arrested by the low price of another “desirable residence”, I asked “What's the crab'?” The agent assured me that there was no ' crab . I fell in love with this house at sight. Happily, I discovered that it was reputed to be haunted.
    Derived terms
    * Alaska crab, Alaska king crab, Alaskan king crab * arrow crab * black crab * blue crab * blue swimmer crab * box-crab * catch a crab * Chinese crab * Chinese mitten crab * Christmas Island red crab * circular crab * coconut crab * come off crabs * crabbed * crabber * crabbery * crabbing * crabbish * crabby * crab cactus * crab canon, crab-canon * crab-catcher * crab-claw * crab-eater * crab-eating * crab face, crab-face * crab-faced * crab-favored, crab-favoured * crab-farming * crab-fish * crab-grass, crabgrass * crab-harrow * crab-hole * crab-holed * crablet * crab-like, crablike * crabling * crab-lobster * crab louse, crab-louse * crab mentality * crabmeat * Crab Nebula * crabologist * crab-pot * crab-pot valve * crab rock * crab-roller * crab's claw * crab's eye, crab's-eye * crab-shell * crab-sidle * crab-snouted * crab spider, crab-spider * crab-step * crab stick * crab-stone * crab-weed * crabwise * crab yaws * cut a crab * Dungeness crab * fiddler crab * flower crab * ghost crab * green crab * halloween crab * hard-shell crab * hermit crab * horseshoe crab * Jonah crab * king crab, king-crab * lady crab * land crab, land-crab * mangrove crab * mantis crab * masked crab * mole crab * mud crab * nobody-crab * oyster crab * palm crab * pea crab, pea-crab * porcelain crab * purse crab * racing crab * river crab * robber-crab * rock crab * sand crab * sea-crab * sentinel crab * shame-faced crab * shore crab, shore-crab * soft-shell crab * soldier crab, soldier-crab * spider crab, spider-crab * stilt crab * stone crab * strawberry crab * Tasmanian giant crab * thumbnail crab * tree crab * turn out crabs * velvet crab * white crab
    Related terms
    * craber * crabier * crabite * crab-skuit * panier de crabes

    Verb

  • To fish for crabs.
  • (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 224:
    • ‘Just so we understand each other,’ he said after a pause. ‘If you crab this case, you'll be in a jam.’
  • To complain.
  • (intransitive, nautical, aviation) To drift sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
  • To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
  • (obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
  • (rare) To back out of something.
  • *
    • Derived terms
    * crabber * crabbing

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) crabbe, of Germanic origin, plausibly from Scandinavian, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The crab apple or wild apple.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
    • I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
    And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;
  • The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
  • A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
    • (Garrick)
  • A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  • A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  • A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  • A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
    • Synonyms
    * (crab apple) crab apple * (tree) crab apple
    Derived terms
    * cherry crab * Chinese crab * crab apple, crab-apple, crabapple * crab-bat * crab-knob * crab-staff * crab-stick, crabstick * crab-stock * crab-tree * garland crab * Siberian crab

    Verb

    (crabb)
  • (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
  • To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
  • * Glanvill
    • Sickness sours or crabs our nature.
  • (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

    • Etymology 3

    Possibly a corruption of the genus name

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The tree species , native of South America.
    • Derived terms
    * crab-nut * crab-oil

    Etymology 4

    Alternation of carabiner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Short for carabiner.

    • References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 *

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