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Sookie, also written ‘Sukey’ or ‘Suki’, is a variant of the name Susan or Susannah, from Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (Shoshána) meaning "rose" or "lily."[1] Most famously, the name occurs in the English nursery rhyme "Polly Put the Kettle On."[2]
Sookie may refer to the following fictional characters:
- Sookie St. James, from the TV series Gilmore Girls
- Sookie Stackhouse, appearing in The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels and the True Blood TV adaptation
- Sookie Sapperstein, from the film Igby Goes Down
- The song Sookie Sookie by Steppenwolf on their eponymous album
- Sukey Tawdry in the Bertolt Brecht musical The Threepenny Opera and the song from it Mack the Knife
See also
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edit- ^ Teresa Norman (2003) A World of Baby Names, Perigee Trade; Revised edition ISBN 0399528946
- ^ I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd ed., 1997), pp. 353–54.