sooky
adjective, noun
sooky is an adjective meaning “Complaining, whingeing, sad; jealous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-O-K-Y, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does sooky mean?
adjective
- 1
AustraliaslangComplaining, whingeing, sad; jealous.
- 2
AustraliaslangSentimental, sissy; timid.
noun
- 1
A sook, a crybaby.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sooky?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-sooky.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sooky
- sookier comparative
- more sooky comparative
- sookiest superlative
- most sooky superlative
- sookey
- sukey
- sookies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sooky?
Sooky appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does sooky come from?
From sook + -y (“characteristic of”) and -y (“diminutive”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).