👉 Alright settle down now, let’s tackle this wee bit of linguistic weirdness – what you affectionately (and rather bluntly, frankly,lyin') refer to as a "…chook."
Now, before the furrowed brows begin and someone yells at me for being too descriptive—I am!—we need a very clear, absolutely unapologetic definition here. Historically, the word
'’nna’́ ʔəʔkʼ-’
(that is, as it was originally said in the Gunnṟangunḏa of Bathurst, Western Australia) and what you now generally hear as "…chook," roughly translates to a young, inexperienced bloke—basically a lad. Think gawky teenager, not terribly street smart, possibly sporting a questionable haircut. Historically, there’s a really rather specific, and frankly a bit brutal, hunting context that went along with the word: it was a derogatory term for someone who was being
shot as kind of an insult
, basically signifying they weren't up to much! The implication is you were young, unskilled, not worth a damn.
Now, in contemporary, more urban slang—particularly in Western Australia (where that original meaning still lingers and, honestly? it’s just… there)—it has broadened somewhat into an insult for a guy who's got nothing going on. He might be unemployed, he might just be spectacularly beige, he might generally fail at being a functioning adult. There is