pook
/puːk
/verb [with object] Scottish & Northern Irish
Pinch or pluck (someone or something): he was always pooking him by the sleeve...
- The school was only attended by a few poor pooked weans.
- He ruled and governed us like a tyrant with a rod of iron, pooking me.
- We pooked him back into the middle of the brook.
Origin
Mid 17th century: of unknown origin.
- peacock moth
- peacock mottle
- peacock ore
- peacock pheasant
- peacockry
- peacock's feather
- peacock's tail
- peacock stone
- Peacock, Thomas Love
- peacock throne
- peacock tiger-flower
- peacock worm
- peacocky
- pea coffee
- pea comb
- pea-combed
- peacow
- pea crab
- pea-dodger
- pea dove
- pea-eater
- pea-finch
- pea flour
- pea flower
- pea-flowered