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In some senses, chook is marked as informal, dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.
chook
/t͡ʃʊk/
noun 4intj 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
inside, quack
VERB + CHOOK
fence, like, pencil
CHOOK + NOUN
australian, cock-a-doodle-doo, coopex
PREP.
in, into, with
Definitions
noun
1
A chicken, especially a hen.
Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
2006, Judith Brett, The Chook in the Australian Unconscious, in Peter Beilharz, Robert Manne, Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, page 329, This little book, with its meticulous pencil drawings of chooks in mechanical contraptions and photos to show the machine in operation with a white leghorn called Gregory Peck, is evidence of both the sadism inspired by the chook′s comparatively flightless fate and the laughter we use to defend ourselves against the knowledge of that sadism.
2
A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
3
A fool.
4
Affectionate name for a person
intj
1
A call made to chickens.
2
An imitation of the call of a chicken.
Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.
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Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
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2006, Judith Brett, The Chook in the Australian Unconscious, in Peter Beilharz, Robert Manne, Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, page 329, This little book, with its meticulous pencil drawings of chook
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She decided to dig her way under the fence into their chook house and had great fun running around and biting the necks of about eight chooks and leaving them half-dead and bleeding. The neighbour was
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Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.
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Like a chook with its head cut off.
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