chook
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- noun
- Australian
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- Yes, I know I'd have to get someone to look after the chooks...
I would, I would get a chocolate milk and a cooked chook, which is like a hot chicken.
- I would, I would get a chocolate milk and a cooked chook, which is like a hot chicken.
- Let's take a little bit more of that powder and cut the chook.
Examples
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After dinner, we roasted a chook and served it with vegetables.
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Catch the chook!
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Besides, I'm a very nice old chook.
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I would, I would get a chocolate milk and a cooked chook, which is like a hot chicken.
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The chooks spent the day.
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Feeding chooks is even worse.
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In comparison, these chooks seem very happy, even if some of them have to put up with a bit of pecking.
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Don't forget to feed the chooks, bandicoot.
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I cook in bulk and freeze it for work (shift worker), and we only recently acquired chooks and ducks.
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Chooks peck the chooks that are below them in status, while they submit to being pecked by those above them.
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Etymology
The word chook is Australian and New Zealand slang for a 'chicken'. A helpful way to remember it is that it likely comes from the short call chuck or the soft chook-chook sound people make to call hens, so chook simply means the bird 'chicken'.