Lexicographical Neighbors of Pouking
Literary usage of Pouking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"Poon [puon], v. to strike or beat. Pouk [pouk], s. a sty on the eye (lit. a pock).
pouking, s. a weak, sickly person. Cf. puking in Shakespeare. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... that ye would behave yourself, and no be pouking at my tail." While she went
bustling about the inn-yard, ..."
3. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1909)
"... LAVA OF 1881 pouking OVER CLIFF. (Williams.) shows the thin lava of Kilauea,
erupted in 1881, pouring over a cliff into water. ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"Pleach, v. to lay a hedge (general). Poon [puon], r. to strike or beat. Pouk [pouk],
я. a sty on the eye (lit. a pock). pouking, .'. a weak, sickly person. ..."
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