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Sook, sookie, suck,
sucky, sukey, Sooky


[edit] Etymology 114th c. English, 19th c. Scottish. From Old English sūcan (“‘to suck’”). See suck.

[edit] VerbInfinitive
to sook
Third person singular
sooks
Simple past
sooked
Past participle
sooked
Present participle
sooking


to sook (third-person singular simple present sooks, present participle sooking, simple past and past participle sooked)

Alternative spelling of suck.
[edit] Quotations1832, 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
[edit] Etymology 21838 sukey, 1844 Sucky, 1850 Suke, 1906 sook. Probably from suck.

[edit] Alternative formssuck
suke
[edit] PronunciationIPA: /suːk, sʊk/
[edit] NounSingular
sook
Plural
sooks



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