Orp, Chook? say WHAT?

[Oblio13]

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Okay, I'll finally come clean. "Chook" comes from "Canadian House Of Orpington Kebabs". It was a niche restaurant in Toronto that went bankrupt after a scandal broke in the news alleging that they were serving Barnevelders.





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[Jessika]

Chook: Chicken. Often served barbecued at fancy turns. If your hostess is befuddled and/or overcome by trying to do too many things at once, one might say she was "running around like a chook with its head cut-off!

LOL I found it on a "How to be Australian" page.... LOL

 

[Jessika]

This is how the page starts....


"AUSTRALIAN SLANG

WHAT IS 'STRINE?'
Although English is Australia's official language, when Australians speak to each other, they use a lot of made-up words and expressions which are a kind of 'code'. You may have heard some of these before, especially if you have seen Australian movies or television shows. Australian slang is sometimes called 'Strine', which is a what some Australians call each other… it's short for the way a true-blue Aussie pronounces 'Australian'… like 'Aw-strine'! "

 

[LoneCowboy]

You guys scare me

 

[Oblio13]

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Okay, okay, you guys are too smart for me. "Chook" comes from an Australian retirement community called the "Canberra Hen Onomatopoeic Oldster's Home". Residents there communicate solely with chicken noises, and may be expelled for using human speech, barking, meowing or neighing.







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[Chicabee19]

chook (plural chooks)


noun Australia

Definition:

1. chicken: a hen or chicken ( informal )

2. offensive term: an offensive term that deliberately insults a woman's age or appearance ( slang )

[Mid-20th century. An imitation of a clucking sound]

but I like this one better:

"Canberra Hen Onomatopoeic Oldster's Home"

 

[Chirpy]

Oblio ... you so crack me up!

Chook is used across the pond in place of chicken. I will admit that I've frequented a chicken forum (this was before I found BYC) from across the pond and that's all you'll hear there. I was the oddball out calling them chickens. Great people on that forum though... just like here.

Most of the rest of the world calls chickens... chooks.

 

[NYREDS]

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And the second one, too.

I'm pretty sure "chook" is onomatopoeic.

My chickens don't say "chook"

 

[Nemo]

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Do you have American chickens? Animals sound differently in different countries... In Japan, the standard sound for imitating a dog is "wan wan" not "woof woof". And for a cat, it's "nay", not "meow".

 

[NYREDS]

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Do you have American chickens? Animals sound differently in different countries... In Japan, the standard sound for imitating a dog is "wan wan" not "woof woof". And for a cat, it's "nay", not "meow".

You win!