What are chooks?

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BattelSyrup said:
I thought biddy was because they stand around chatting and clucking like old biddies when they're older.
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Been laughing through this whole thread
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BattelSyrup, that's pretty much it...most of us older women are a bit set in our ways, have been raised old school, so the chatting would prolly be about that short dress "she" wore to church, as in " can you believe, so and so, wore THAT to CHURCH?" and the clucking would be the actual cluck sound, as in " no I can't believe she wore that short of a skirt to church"...only not actually saying it...just agreeing...it's an old person thang
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I guess us older women do kinda sound like a bunch of old hens/biddies
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It's funny and I may have mentioned this before but if my grandmother was upset with or didn't like another lady in the senior age group, she'd refer to her as "That Old Bitty down the road." So I always thought it referred to elderly hens, especially those who were bitter. bitty - bitter. Anyway, thought I'd throw this in here. :D
 
From what I've seen chook comes from the Irish Gaelic tioc. It means come and is pronounced chook. As a lot of Australians and New Zealanders have some Irish in their blood I can see this term coming over from the Emerald Isle with them. And when strung together chook chook chooook sure does sound like a chicken to me. Biddies also actually comes from Ireland. Biddie is a nickname for Bridget. Bridget was a very very common name for Irish serving girls and a group became known as "Biddies". Perhaps someone noted a group of chattering chickens and likened them to a group of socializing Biddies
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