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sooky
adj 2noun 1
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2VERB + SOOKY
become
SOOKY + NOUN
attention, needy
Definitions
adj
1
Complaining, whingeing, sad; jealous.
Kangaroos on the other hand become even more sooky (needy for attention), when denied time outside.
2
Sentimental, sissy; timid.
Sentimentalists and political quacks have devoted much time to convincing the sookier twentieth century that nineteenth century New World penitentiaries were choked with near-blameless stealers of one teaspoon, one handkerchief, one loaf of bread.
Judging by the subject matter, Turkish soldiers are the sookiest, purse-carryingest, most sentimental nancy boys ever to put on military uniforms.
noun
1
A sook, a crybaby.
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Kangaroos on the other hand become even more sooky (needy for attention), when denied time outside.
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Sentimentalists and political quacks have devoted much time to convincing the sookier twentieth century that nineteenth century New World penitentiaries were choked with near-blameless stealers of one
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Judging by the subject matter, Turkish soldiers are the sookiest, purse-carryingest, most sentimental nancy boys ever to put on military uniforms.
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