Definition of Pouks

1. pouk [v] - See also: pouk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pouks

poufier
poufiest
poufing
poufs
pouftah
pouftahs
poufter
poufters
poufy
poughite
pouk
pouke
poukes
pouking
poukit
pouks (current term)
poulaine
poulaines
poulard
poularde
poulardes
poulards
pouldavis
poulder
poulders
pouldre
pouldres
pouldron
pouldrons
poule

Literary usage of Pouks

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

1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1834)
"... same image is capable of exhibiting when re-touched with all the art of genius. Gray in his ' Ode to Spring' has ' The attic warbler pouks HER THROAT. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"CAa. Your Fortune only this Could add, confirming you an Errant Knight. [Exeunt. ( pouks without.) This way the uproar sounds. Enter from the tide whence ..."

3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... frequent on the pouks of Г fall and Colorado, and doubtless to lie found in the Sierra Nevada, though it seems not to have been collected south of the ..."

4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1887)
"... the hairs out o't" : hence, to lift or take in small quantities : as, " He just pouks at his meat." Addit. to POOK, qv POOK, POUR, *. ..."

5. Development of English Literature and Language by Alfred Hix Welsh (1882)
"... of the skeleton that stands there to scare him from his roses and his cups: 'The thirsty earth pouks up the rain, And drinks, uud gapes for drink again. ..."

6. History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth by Benjamin F. Gue (1903)
"... the French pouks, and by this name they were designated on the early maps. The word Pottawattamie means "makers of fire" and was to the tribe expressive ..."

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