sook

sook
I
Australian Slang
a person or animal who is soft, tame, inoffensive; a 'cry-baby' - someone who is likely to burst into tears with minimal provocation
II
Scottish Vernacular Dictionary
To suck "When the weans hud sooked aw the orange colour oot thur jooblies they papped the ice at the backs o' the heids o' the weans in front."
Ingratiate. Someone who sucks up. "Yurra wee sook, so ye are"
III
Canadian Slang
[seh-oook]
wimp, cry baby
Ow, you poor sook
IV
Kiwi (New Zealand Slang)
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. Suggested by Pam.

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