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chook

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026AUS

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.

Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
Origin: From , from , tsiuc. Compare. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026AUS

(Australia, dated) A fool.

: This little book, with its meticulous pencil drawings of chooks in mechanical contraptions and photos to show the machine in operation with a white leghorn called Gregory Peck, is evidence of both the sadism inspired by the chook′s com…
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#3·Apr 27, 2026AUS

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.

2006, Judith Brett, The Chook in the Australian Unconscious, in Peter Beilharz, Robert Manne, Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6hvUkbZoItUC&pg=PA329&dq=%22chook%22|%22chooks%22+-intitle:%22chook|choo…
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