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sooterkin Now rare.|ˈsuːtəkɪn|
Forms: 6 suterkyn, 8 -kin; 7 soutterkine, souterkine, soutri-, 8 souterkin; 7– sooterkin.
[In sense 1 app. ad. older Du. or Flem. *soetekijn (cf. Kilian, ‘soetken, dulcis amica, glycerium’), f. soet sweet. In sense 2 perh. f. soot n.1; there is app. no similar term in Dutch.]
†1. Sweetheart, mistress. Obs.—1
1530Songs in Anglia XII. 593 This mynyon ys A rutter⁓kyn; non lyke to hym but only Trym hys owne suterkyn.
2. An imaginary kind of afterbirth formerly attributed to Dutch women (see first quot.).
a1658Cleveland Char. Diurn. Maker (1677) 103 There goes a Report of the Holland Women, that together with their Children, they are delivered of a Sooterkin, not unlike to a Rat, which some imagine to be the Off-spring of the Stoves. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 146 Knaves and Fools b'ing near of Kin, As Dutch-Boors are t' a Sooterkin. 1727Swift To Delany Wks. 1755 III. ii. 232 There follow'd at his lying-in For after-birth a Sooterkin. 1742E. Montagu Lett. II. 180, I am glad there was a child, but pray was there not a little souterkin for the joy of the Lady's relations. 1748Mary Leapor Poems 92 But turn your back,..Alcidas with a Grin Will vow you're ugly as a Sooterkin. 1862Draper Intell. Devel. Europe xviii. (1865) 412 The housewives of Holland no longer bring forth sooterkins by sitting over the lighted chauffers.
b. transf. Chiefly applied to persons in allusive senses; sometimes = Dutchman. Also attrib.
1680Betterton The Revenge iii. i, Good morrow, my little Sooterkin; how is't, my prettie Life? 1696in Maidment Scottish Pasquils (1868) 307 For if the Devil assumed thy corpes, And travelled through the Holand Dorps, Thou would terrify the Souterkines. a1704T. Brown Dial. Dead Wks. 1711 IV. 33 Whilst I was getting Money,..my Wife made it fly like Suterkins at home. 1719D'Urfey Pills II. 219 Ye Jacobites as sharp as Pins, Ye Mounsieurs, and ye Sooterkins, I'll teach you all the Dance. 1746Brit. Mag. 7 Smiling between Anger and Pleasure upon the sniveling Sooterkin. 1795Sporting Mag. V. 136 The highwayman pushed poor Sooterkin [= chimney-sweep] out of the way. 1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 60 Here is the sugar beside, which the hands of the sooterkin negro Reared [etc.].
c. Applied to literary compositions, etc., of a supplementary or imperfect character.
1668T. St. Serfe Tarugo's Wiles Epil., Besides the Authors true birth [= his play], the Audience will not be satisfied without a Soutterkine. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 126 Fruits of dull Heat, and Sooterkins of Wit. 1777R. W. Cox in C. F. Hardy Benenden Lett. (1901) 152 You can show you are a clever fellow, while poor I..must have my cherubims suffocated, and sooterkins put in the cradle. 1817Carlyle Early Letters (1886) I. 94 After considerable flourishing, he ventured to produce this child of the Doctor's brain—and truly it seemed a very Sooterkin. 1866― Remin. (1881) II. 240 It was by her address and invention that I got my sooterkin of a ‘study’ improved out of its worst blotches. |