Sooking?

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Thu Sep 29 05:13:11 UTC 2005


>Got a letter to the editor that read: "The never-ending, overly personal
>bleating and sooking from your contributors has finally defeated me."
>
>Sooking?
>
>Is it Yinglish? Slang? Where's it come from?

Seems to be Australian slang, "sook" [v.] = "whine" or so, "sook" [n.] =
"wimp"/"crybaby". Maybe a modification of "suck"? Lots of examples on the Web.

-- Doug Wilson



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