pook
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Try the pook chuuk — grilled pork fillets marinated in Mayan white spices and sour orange, or the tikin xic, snapper grilled in annatto sauce.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2012
Her flip-smile had the best of both pook and pagan.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
"An' now we'll pook him back again, for I've done with him," he ses.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard
The man micht be a carven image, and Leevie no better nor a shifty in the pook.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
See," he said, "dere vas der pook vich make mankind brudders.
From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Beard, Harry
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