Lexicographical Neighbors of Stooged
Literary usage of Stooged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"I leaue not Lucrèce out, beleeue in hir who lyst, Ii hin l,r she would haue lik'd
his lure, and stooged to his fist. [liking thus? But that 1 read her life, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... adj. and adv. lying about the field in separate sheaves, not as yet stooged ;
of corn cut and bound into sheaves. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1848)
"Even as we looked upon him, he stooged over the body, and as if satisfied that
life was extinct, laid his hand upon the still muscular arm. ..."
4. Atkinson's Casket by Samuel Coate Atkinson (1833)
"The entrance closing with a pin, The stranger stooged to enter in, And manifested
strong desire To seat him by the log-heap fire, Where half a dozen ..."
5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"stooged, set fast in the mire. The first quotation is the motto to ch. v.
of Kingsley's Westward Ho. It was among the ways of good Queen Bess, ..."
6. The Imperial Guard of Napoleon: From Marengo to Waterloo by Joel Tyler Headley (1852)
"said Napoleon, as he stooged in his saddle to take the paper. The poor petitioner
said nothing, but looked beseechingly at the emperor, while the tears ..."
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