Lexicographical Neighbors of Pouke
Literary usage of Pouke
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1862)
"Puck. The name of an elf in Shakespear. The pouke, the devil. ... The soule nam
the helle pouke. Arthur and Merlin in Hal. ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"646 ; ' Nor let the pouke nor other evill ... ME. pouke: ' I wene that knyght
was a pouke' (Coer de Leon, 566) ; OE. puca (Napier's OE. Glosses, 23. ..."
3. Notes on Staffordshire Place Names by William Henry Duignan (1902)
"Spenser says :— ' Ne let the pouke, nor other evil spirit, Ne let mischievous
... WHS) pouke Hill is an eminence of basaltic rock, now deeply quarried. ..."
4. The Index Library by British Record Society (1903)
"John pouke holds I ... John Sutor, Robert pouke, William Faber, ... Matilda Berte,
Henry le Gardener, Richard pouke, and John de ..."
5. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)
"... as it was to the Devil (ie, pouke) in the Mysteries. Bull-beggar may be only
a corruption of Bugbear. § The following passage from a writer of the ..."
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