Sookie, also written ‘Sukey’ or ‘Suki’, is a variant of the name Susan or Susannah, from Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (Shoshána) meaning "rose" or "lily." Most famously, the name occurs in the English nursery rhyme "Polly Put the Kettle On."
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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References
- 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.