Lexicographical Neighbors of Pookit
Literary usage of Pookit
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)
"All the meantime I had forgotten the loss of the flap of my coat, which caused
no little sport when I came to recollect what a pookit-like body I must have ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"44 All the meantime I bad forgotten the loss of the flap of my coat, which caused
no little sport when I came to recollect wbat a pookit- ..."
3. Galloway Gossip Sixty Years Ago: Being a Series of Articles Illustrative of by Maria Trotter, Saxon, Robert De Bruce Trotter (1877)
"... yin an' pookit it, it's that like.' ' Ye dinna say sae !' cried all the women
in amazement; but Samuel put on an innocent face, and as they knew he was ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"What you called the " wee pookit shrubs," now form a balmy wilderness, populous
with bees and birds—all the gravel walks are now overshadowed with the cool ..."
5. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"pookit fools," and other delicacies she loaded me with. Then Mr. Carlyle had left
an enormous bundle of new clothes to come with me—the produce of the ..."
6. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"pookit fools,' and other delicacies she loaded me with. Then Mr. Carlyle had loft
an enormous bundle of new clothes to come with me—the produce of the ..."
7. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1821)
"... which caused no little sport when I came to recollect what a pookit like body
I must have been, walking about in the king's policy like a peacock ..."
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