different between chook vs choof

English

Etymology

From Irish dialect chook (“a call made to poultry or pigs”), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc "call to chickens, chicken (child talk), sound made by chickens (= English buck buck buck).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??k/

• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

chook (plural chooks)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.
   • 2006, Judith Brett, The Chook in the Australian Unconscious, in Peter Beilharz, Robert Manne, Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, page 329,

     This little book, with its meticulous pencil drawings of chooks in mechanical contraptions and photos to show the machine in operation with a white leghorn called Gregory Peck, is evidence of both the sadism inspired by the chook?s comparatively flightless fate and the laughter we use to defend ourselves against the knowledge of that sadism.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
3. (Australia, dated) A fool.

Translations

Interjection

chook

1. (Australia) A call made to chickens.

Derived terms

• chook chaser
• chookhouse
• chookie
• chookish
• chook raffle
• chook wheel
• chookyard

Anagrams

• choko

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Semai *coo??, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *?uk ~ *?uuk (“creeper; material for tying”). Cognate with Bahnar j?k (“trigger wire”), Old Mon juk (“creeper; cord”), whence Mon ???? (c??k, “string; cord; rope”) and possibly Vietnamese ch?c.

Noun

chook

1. rattan
2. rope

Synonyms

• (rope): taliiq

Derived terms

References

English

Pronunciation

Noun

choof (uncountable)

1. (slang) marijuana

Verb

choof (third-person singular simple present choofs, present participle choofing, simple past and past participle choofed)

1. (slang) To smoke marijuana.