chook
/tʃʊk
/(also chookie /ˈtʃʊki/)
noun Australian /NZ informal
1A chicken or fowl.Eight countries have now confirmed its presence among chicken populations, tens of millions of chooks have been killed or have died and at least eight people have died due to bird flu....
- Having more land of their own would also enable the Heuvels to experiment with different types of feed crops for their chooks, as the Kiwis say.
- Working-class immigrants, imbued with the dream of three acres and a cow, settled for a quarter-acre suburban block and a pen of chooks.
2 derogatory An older woman.
Origin
1920s: probably from English dialect chuck 'chicken', of imitative origin.