| 单词 | sook cow |
| 释义 | > as lemmassook cow A call used to summon or drive cattle (in Scotland, generally calves); frequently in sook cow. ΚΠ 1867 G. W. Harris Sut Lovingood 24 Yu mout jis' es well say..Suke cow tu a gal. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 101 Suck! Suck! a call to a calf. 1893 H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities Speech Mississippi 76 Suke (sûk), the commonly used word for calling cows. The word cow is sometimes added to it, so as to make sukow (sûkau), the u being long drawn out in the pronunciation. 1897 Amer. Anthropologist 10 98 In Virginia and Alabama it [sc. the call to a cow] becomes sookow, sookow. 1906 H. Pittman Belle of Bluegrass Country xii. 176 ‘Sook Cow, Sook Cow,’ called the milker. 1961 Amer. Speech 36 266 [The expression] sook boss..is an obvious combination of Midland sook! and Northern boss!, both calls to cows in pasture. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles liii. 438 Orkney call words to calves were peed.., and ‘sook! sook!’ or ‘sucko! sucko!’ (from ‘suck’). < as lemmas |
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