In the annals of Australian parliament’s rough and tumble, this latest barb stands out as an oldie but a goodie
The latest favourite barb to be hurled about the federal chamber is “sook” – an oldie, but a goodie. A slightly gentler insult than “snowflake”, “bedwetter” or “
“So they’re sooks or wusses, aren’t stoic. That’s where that sort of insulting language comes from,” she says. The Dictionaries of the Scots Language lists “souk”, “suk”, “suke”, “soock”, “sowk”, “suck” and more as meaning, feeble, silly, foolish. The many definitions also include a “big baby”, an “effeminate person”, a “petted or over-indulged child”.At the start of the month, also inspired by the Gaza issue, Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce called the PM a “sook”.
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