Definition of Sunkie

1. a little stool [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunkie

sungrebes
sunhat
sunhats
sunitinib
sunk
sunk cost
sunk costs
sunk fence
sunken
sunken-eyed
sunken arch
sunken garden
sunkenly
sunket
sunkets
sunkie (current term)
sunkies
sunkissed
sunks
sunlamp
sunlamps
sunland
sunlands
sunless
sunlessly
sunlessness
sunlight
sunlights
sunlike
sunlit

Literary usage of Sunkie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Mony a day hae I wrought my stocking, and sat on my sunkie under that saugh." Guy Mann. ii. 18. It is frequently used to denote such a stool as a dairy-maid ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"His wife, scarcely less imbecile, sat rocking herself to and fro on a low seat, called a sunkie, before a fire, which she in vain tried to make burn, ..."

3. Guy Mannering by Walter Scott (1910)
"... but yet its roots are in the earth, and it hangs ower the bit burn ? Mony a day hae I wrought my stocking and sat on my sunkie under that saugh. ..."

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