chook
Meaning
A chicken, especially a domestic hen.
Example
Can you throw the scraps out to the chooks?
Origin
From British dialect 'chuck' or 'chucky', a chicken.
Variants
chookie
Nearby words
- chocolate frogAn informer.
- chocolate wheelA large numbered wheel spun at fetes and club fundraisers, originally with boxes of chocolates as prizes.
- chokoThe chayote, a pale green, pear-shaped vegetable that grows on a rampant vine, once a fixture on Australian…
- choof offTo leave or set off.
- chook litFiction written for or about older women. Romance fiction set in rural Australia.
- chookasA good-luck call among theatre performers before a show, used instead of 'break a leg'.
- choom derogatoryAn Englishman; a term used by Australian soldiers in World War I.
- chopA share or portion, as in 'get in for your chop'. In 'not much chop': not much good.