stouk
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]stouk (plural stouks)
- Alternative form of stook (“pile of straw etc.”)
Verb
[edit]stouk (third-person singular simple present stouks, present participle stouking, simple past and past participle stouked)
- Alternative form of stook
Anagrams
[edit]Yola
[edit]Noun
[edit]stouk
- Alternative form of stouck
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, pages 84[1]:
- Ch'am a stouk, an a donel; wou'll leigh out ee dey.
- I am a fool and a dunce; we'll idle out the day.
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, lines 5[2]:
- "Faad thay goul ez upa thee, thou stouk" co Billeen,
- "What the divil is on you, you fool?" quoth Billy;
References
[edit]- ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867
- ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland