Home › Words › C › chookchook/t͡ʃʊk/chook means A call made to chickens.chook is pronounced /t͡ʃʊk/.EtymologyFrom Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.intjA call made to chickens.An imitation of the call of a chicken.e.g.“Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.” — 1875 July 23, Sydney Punch, page 1, column 1:nounA chicken, especially a hen.e.g.“Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.” — 2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke′s Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 683:A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.A fool.Affectionate name for a personDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.chookhouse 85% match — A henhouse or chicken coop. vs chook →chookie 83% match — A small or young domestic fowl; a chick. vs chook →chookish 82% match — Chickenlike. vs chook →chookyard 75% match — A chicken run. vs chook →cluck 69% match — The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks. vs chook →chickabiddy 68% match — A chicken or similar bird. vs chook →cochin 66% match — A domestic hen of a large variety with feathered legs, full breast, and small tail. vs chook →chickie 66% match — A woman. vs chook →