2. Verb. third-person singular simple present tense of pooka ¹
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Definition of Pookas
1. pooka [n] - See also: pooka
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pookas
Literary usage of Pookas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"His old woman in the Celtic Twilight tells him details of Purgatory and pookas
with the same degree of credulity. Irish Catholicism is. however, ..."
2. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)
"Here we plainly have the English Puck ; but it is remarkable that the boy should
speak of pookas in the plural number. In Leinster, it was always the, ..."
3. The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend by Charles Squire (1905)
"We shall hardly do wrong in regarding such spectres as the degraded gods of a
pre-Aryan race, like the Irish leprechauns and pookas, who have nothing in ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1889)
"12010, gilt top, $1.50. LOWELL, Jame» Russell. Political Essay». 12010, gilt top,
$1.50. McANALLY, DR Irish Wonder» : The Ghosts, Giants, pookas, Demons, ..."
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