ook

intj
/uːk/UK/uk/US

Etymology

Imitative of the cry of an ape or monkey.

Definitions

  1. Used to represent the sound of the cry of an ape or monkey.

    • He tapped the Librarian on the shoulder. "Excuse me —" "Ook?" "Those guys just called you a monkey," said Glod.
    • The irate ape cries, "Ook ook! Ai ai ai!" He springs off the edge of the stone basin, clawing Cantare across the face and bursting through the door.
    • Fingers pinched my eyelashes and lifted one eyelid. I looked straight into a big, leathery black face surrounded by brown fur. “Ook?” asked the monkey.
  2. To make the cry of an ape or monkey.

  3. Of a black person

    Of a black person: to speak gibberish or nonsense.

    • Starts ooking and eeking About Slavery, Racism, Hair Salons, etc!
    • On Saturday, April 27, 2013 11:40:40 PM UTC+10, nigger brndy ooked: > You all have AIDS, cock suckers.
    • Weird spectacle, to be expected of simians. The grieving mudda is wearing dark sunglasses even though it is night and appears highly medicated, she ooks and eeks and you can tell she is in her glory in front of the cameras.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ook. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA