Lexicographical Neighbors of Pooking
Literary usage of Pooking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"A woman employed in pooking. ... SW pooking-fork. The large prong, with a cross
handle, for pushing along in front of the ..."
2. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"pooking. Putting into cocks. ' The price is seldom higher than eighteen pence
per acre for mowing, and one shilling for pooking.' Wilts. 90. ..."
3. Old Country and Farming Words: Gleaned from Agricultural Books by James Britten (1880)
"Laying old hedges.' Heref. 30. pooking. Putting into cocks. ' The price is seldom
higher than eighteen pence per acre for mowing, and one shilling for ..."
4. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"pooking. Putting into cocks. ' The price is seldom higher than eighteen pence
per acre for mowing, and one shilling for pooking.' Wilts. 90. ..."
5. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire by George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard (1893)
"A woman employed in pooking. ... SW pooking-fork. The large prong, with a cross
handle, for pushing along in front of the ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1851)
"... whole scheme of reform, we cannot take the liberty of pooh-pooking them, as
most of the newspapers have done—we ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... and desired her never to regard him, for he was the most harmless, good-natured
being in existence, " but had joost gottin a gate o' pooking at the ..."
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