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You don’t know the name of the person who works in your Dad’s house all the time?
Where were we?Yes, we are standing in a field. Oops, not college educated. Almost all good drovers had their own peculiar words of cajolement.Those who have watched the James Herriott series on PBS may have noted that in Yorkshire, the terms of encouragement are “Cush, cush.” I never heard anyone at the River use that particular word, and I doubt it would be effective. “Oh, um, hey, you, could I have some sweet tea?”And now, I’m supposed to believe that Bill, who did not own slaves, but who lived in his big farm house, which would have made him responsible for the livestock on that farm, called his cows with “Suck-ah”?The Scots-Irish, who, I would assume, brought the term with them, seemed, as evidence by the music we can hear the term in now, to have spread it pretty far in the South and across various Southern cultures. You should remember, when standing in a cow pasture, to watch your step. This would make hogs wilder and warier and require the kind of caterwauling heard at hog-calling contests. If I was on hand, he’d let me call, though, as he knew I liked to do it.With beef cattle, however, it wasn’t always that simple. In her absence, I will relay what she once said to me when I asked this same question. Interjection (en interjection) (Scotland) A call for calves. We want to call to them and get their attention. But, if we yell “Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,” now we have those cows’ attention.And now we’re back to talking about my biggest problem with Bill. (Scandalous!
Meanwhile, the Irish great-grandpa called his milking cow Boss. Winds light and variable. Locally heavy rainfall possible.One Saturday morning, not so long ago, my late neighbor, Jerry Meador, was out early, calling his cows; a sound frequently heard in the River days, nearly silent today. (US dialectal) A call for cattle. Notes from the river: 'Sook,' and the art of the cattle call
Look it up, honey.”Sister Mavis Staples can “Sooky sooky now” all over “I’ll Take You There,” by the way. Often Earl would have to smack one with a stick to get its nose out of the pour-spout, yet still “pig, pigging” amidst the racket.Calling chickens was very similar. Second, him talking about his dad owning slaves and how he knew the name of one of the field slaves, but not the house slave? The cows we want are way on the other side of the pasture. Often the “sook” was merely to locate them so they could be driven. Also, have we discussed the completely stupid way Bill says Sookie’s name?We have not. He’ll know.I can live with a Sookie that rhymes either with cookie or kookie or somewhere in the middle.I could also live with Dwight Yoakam calling me up every night right about nine o’clock and just growling “Aw, Sookie, Sookie” into the phone.Also, I think “Cattle and Women” should be a book, which I would then read.“cattle and women” should be a coffee table book – a cover made of hand-tooled leather….Sookie is pronounced like cookie, but with an s, obviously.The book you’re looking for has already been written by Laurie Winn Carlson.
:)Sorry this whole conversation is nil in my mind.
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As well as his pronounciation of it: “Fay-ast.” And I just remembered: Even the GILMORE GIRLS said it right.
That’s why it was good to hear Jerry Meador that day, despite the half-notes of his song.Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos.Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles. I’m talking someone pushing 80, who speaks with that “Ah went to Suh-waneeh” accent that you just don’t hear any more and who you call “Grandfather” or your mom shoots holes in your skull with her eyes. sook interj. Not that jackasses haven’t posted it on the internet before… just I should not be my own jackass, you know?I’m with Rachel — in MS it rhymes with “kooky” — the most used situation I remember hearing this was when a skinny white male redneck was insulting an overweight white female redneck.I’ll speak to an older in-law over Turkey… he went to those Southern-type schools that you speak of — he’s even got inherited MS Delta land. (Scotland) A call for calves. sook n. (Australia, New Zealand) A poddy calf.
Chance of rain 50%. Your name should be Rod or Tightjeans or Mr. Sexypants. Like you call to any pig, regardless of its name, with “Sooey!,” you, if you are Scottish and live in the past, call cows “Sookie” to get them to come.Now, on the one hand, Bill is right that “Sook” probably comes from “suck,” so maybe Suck-eh isn’t such a weird way to say it, but let’s just think about this word pragmatically. You are, for some reason, standing in a pile of cow poop. If I think about him too hard, I do not believe he’s a real Confederate Southerner. (Newfoundland) A call for cattle or sheep.
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sook n. (Newfoundland) A cow or sheep. sook n. (Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf. Locally heavy rainfall possible..Thunderstorms likely. sook n. (US dialectal) Familiar name for a cow.
The pigs, later shoats, then hogs, would be in the troughs grunting, squealing and clamoring for their slop.