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I Sook Rhymes Book Noun Timid Cowardly Person

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sook /rhymes with book/
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noun
A timid or cowardly person; a crybaby.

[Probably from English dialect suck. Earliest documented use: 1933.]

"I usually put on a brave face. I didn't want anyone to think I was a sook." - Rosemary Howden; Episodes from a Fractured Childhood; Ginninderra Press; 2008.

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