poolyn.
/ˈpuːli/, U.S. /ˈpuli/, Irish English /ˈpuːli/ slang (chiefly Irish English)
A small pool, esp. of urine. Chiefly in to do (also make) pooly: to urinate; to ejaculate.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > urine > [noun] > pool of
pooly1847
puddle1956
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 637/1 Pooly, mictura. West.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 506 It's as limp as a boy of six's doing his pooly behind a cart.
1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 216/2 Pooley, urine. Make pooley, used esp. to and by children.
1975 New Yorker 21 July 33/1 The man..dropped his trousers and said, ‘Come here till I do pooly in you’.
1995 A. Higgins Donkey's Years i. 5 ‘Can you do pooley?’ Nurse O'Reilley asks us.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
poolyadj.
/ˈpuːli/, U.S. /ˈpuli/ now rare.
Of the nature of or resembling a pool. Also: having many pools; swampy.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective]
fen-lichc1000
fennyc1000
mooryOE
marshya1382
marshlyc1410
moorisha1492
queachy?a1500
marish1549
plashya1552
foggy?1555
fen-like1561
undrained1573
fennish1577
boggy1587
paludious1595
wealy1601
marishy1607
snapy1607
uliginous1610
quagmiry1623
paludiate1632
boggish1633
pooly1652
swampy1661
spouty1677
gouty1686
pondy1687
morassy1699
sloppy1699
lairy17..
soggya1722
swampish1725
splashy1727
squashy1751
haggy1765
gaulty1784
slumpy1823
sumpy1824
paludine1852
paludic1854
paludinal1856
paludian1860
paludinous1866
paludal1871
paludial1875
morassic1893
muskeggy1894
swamped1899
the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [adjective] > resembling or abounding in
pooly1652
1652 H. Bell tr. M. Luther Colloquia Mensalia xxxiv. 370 Many Divels are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolie places [Ger. an feuchten pfulichten orten], ready to hurt and prejudice people.
1734 F. Clifton tr. Hippocrates Upon Air 9 Those [waters] therefore that are marshy, stagnant, and pooly must in the Summer be unavoidably hot, thick, and stinking.
1773 Coll. Scarce, Curious & Valuable Pieces 309 Deep and more deep the pooly stream descends.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 181 The water struggled onwards through narrow gullets, boiling caldrons, and pooly whirls.
1860 E. J. Lewis in Colorado 14 209 Thence some miles further to crossing of creek; a pooly stream dry where we crossed.
2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 Feb. 9 Across the creeky pool (or pooly creek) to our right lay a big chunk of water-bound, uncontoured land.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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