chook

Meaning

Noun

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
3. (Australia, dated) A fool.
4. (Australia, Northern-England) Affectionate name for a person
5. (Northern-England) A chicken.

Intj

1. (Australia) A call made to chickens.
2. An imitation of the call of a chicken.

Synonyms

chicken

🐔

domestic fowl

fowl

hen

🐔

rooster 雌鶏 hen

Translations

gall

🐓

gallina

🐔

pollastre

Huhn

🐔

κότα

κοτόπουλο

poule

🐔

gallina

🐔

gallo

🐓

pollo

🐔

hen

kip

🐔

galina

frango

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃʊk/

Etymology

From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.