Lexicographical Neighbors of Pooks
Literary usage of Pooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1842)
"Mr. pooks was a literary luminary, of no small brilliancy amongst the coterie of
... The minute pooks saw the Mandarin, his eye—that is, the glass in his ..."
2. Confessions of a Book Agent; Or, Twenty Years by Stage and Rail; Being the by James Howard Mortimer (1906)
"... asked him why he was not taking advantage of my offer. "Oh pooks! pooks!
pooks!" he said, "I don't vant no pooks," and holding his hands about a foot ..."
3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"A fine Sunday came, and he then hid his watch under one of the pooks (cocks).
Then with his fork he turned over all the other pooks, and when people asked ..."
4. Watch Yourself Go by by Alfred Griffith Field (1912)
""Ve vant no more picturs und ve don't reat der pooks," was the argument with
which the old fellow met all of Palmer's solicitations. ..."
5. Report and Transactions (1875)
"[" POOK " is used about Looe. WP] Daniel—" At stons, an' mots, and pooks we '11
loft" Companion, p. 25. Tregellas—"PooK. Kick." "Find the pooks of turves. ..."
6. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"Daniel—" At stons, an' mots, and pooks we '11 loff." Companion, p. 25. [" POOK"
is used about Looe. ... Kick." "Find the pooks of turves." Tales, p. 185. ..."
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