Noun: chook chûk
Usage: Austral, NZ, informal
Usage: Austral, NZ, informal
- A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
"The farmer went to feed the chooks in the coop";
- chicken, Gallus gallus
Derived forms: chooks
Type of: domestic fowl, fowl, poultry
Encyclopedia: Chook