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Sooked vs Looked - What's the difference?

sooked | looked |

As verbs the difference between sooked and looked

is that sooked is (sook) while looked is (look).

sooked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sook)

  • 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.
    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)."

    looked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (look)
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    look

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
  • :
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
  • *, chapter=10
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • To appear, to seem.
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  • *170? , (Joseph Addison), Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. , Dedication
  • *:but should I publish any favours done me by your Lordship, I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
  • *2012 , Chelsea 6-0 Wolves
  • *:Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
  • (lb) To give an appearance of being.
  • :
  • To search for, to try to find.
  • To face or present a view.
  • :
  • *Bible, (w) xi. 1
  • *:the east gatewhich looketh eastward
  • To expect or anticipate.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:looking each hour into death's mouth to fall
  • (lb) To express or manifest by a look.
  • *(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
  • *:Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again.
  • *
  • To make sure of, to see to.
  • *1898 , (Homer), (Samuel Butler) (translator),
  • *:"Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.
  • To show oneself in looking.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:My toes look through the overleather.
  • To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes..
  • To seek; to search for.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:Looking my love, I go from place to place.
  • To expect.
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
  • :
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:A spirit fit to start into an empire, / And look the world to law.
  • (senseid)(lb) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
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  • Hyponyms

    * stare * gaze

    Derived terms

    * look about * look after * look around * look at * look away * look back * look down on * look down upon * look for * look forward * look forward to * look in on * look into * look on * look out * look out for * look over * look through * look to * look up * look up to * look upon * forelook * lookalike, look-alike * look alive * lookee * looker * lookit * look lively * lookout, look-out * look-see * look before you leap * look down one's nose * look daggers at * look here * look oneself * look sharp * look somebody in the eye * look the other way * look what the cat's brought in * mislook * onlooker * overlook * relook * underlook

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of looking, an attempt to see.
  • (label) Physical appearance, visual impression.
  • *
  • A facial expression.
  • Derived terms

    * have a look * if looks could kill * lookist * outlook * relook

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