chook
⇨ chook; chookie; chuckienoun
1
an adult domestic chicken, male or female. First appearing in Australia in the diminutive form 'chuckey' this word is imitative of the cluck of the hen but also owes something to 'chicken'. In general use in British dialect from C18 as chuck, chuke, and the diminutive chookie, chucky, where it was also used as a term of endearment from the C19 AUSTRALIA, 1900.
2
a slaughtered chicken dressed for cooking; a cooked chicken AUSTRALIA, 1948.
3
cooked chicken meat AUSTRALIA, 1945.
4
a woman, especially an elderly woman AUSTRALIA, 1915.
5
a fool AUSTRALIA, 1955.
6
a coward. A variation of CHICKEN AUSTRALIA, 1997.► choke the chook; milk the chook(of a male) to masturbate. Variant of CHOKE THE CHICKEN. AUSTRALIA, 1999.► I hope your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny downI wish you bad luck AUSTRALIA, 1972.► like a chook with its head chopped off; like a chook without a headwithout rhyme or reason. A variant of HEADLESS CHICKEN AUSTRALIA, 1983