http://wordie.org/words/sook Comments for the word 'Sook' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/sook#comments Interesting, frindley. I hadn't heard those usages or known that it was a term in use in Stri and NZ. You did remind me of this word, though, that I know is used in Newfoundland. I've heard it defined as someone who's kind of an idiot, but the only reason I heard of the word in the first place is that it's the name of a folk tune, "The Sook." Pretty awesome tune. Thu, 08 May 2008 15:39:06 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/sook#comments http://wordie.org/words/sook#comments Just in case you were mislead by the usage example on <a href="/words/fossick">fossick</a>, sook isn't always used harshly. It can also be used kindly and can even serve as a term of endearment, as in these examples taken from a list of NZ and Australian words:<br /><br />sook: kindly description of someone who is being silly, or behaving like a softy or scaredy cat. As in:- "you're being a sook"... "just a big sook" and so on... More often than not the phrase is used as a term of endearment. <br /><br />To this can be added the idea of teariness or being prone to crying, hence "sooky baby". Thu, 08 May 2008 14:05:36 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/sook#comments