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
I hafe got dat very pook here on mein table!
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
I haf say der pook inside all apout Anarchy.
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
"A pook achent, vat podders te school committees till they do vat you vish, shoost to get rid of you?"
I hope no, Andrew; we're in good hands; and if he should e'en see meet to pook a craw wi' us, he'll maybe fling us baith the bouk and the feathers at the end.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
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