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hookah

[hook-uh] / ˈhʊk ə /


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She has enough English nowto match my bargeists and goblinswith pookas and suchlike,and I find I have learned what these are,from many a nightspent sharing and cheapening fire.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2010

The Blaskets had decided to give back their six isles to the pixies, the pookas and the hobgoblins.

From Time Magazine Archive

Off the storm-ravaged coast of Southwest Ireland lie the six fog-bound Blasket Isles,* where 14 centuries ago Ireland's Celtic saints built Christian shrines of turf and mud to fend off pixies, pookas, hobgoblins and leprechauns.

From Time Magazine Archive

It isn't wan ghost but twinty I might meet betune this an' the cross-roads, let alone fairies and pookas.

From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine

"I'm not sure, but there are tales about fairy raths and changelings and leprechauns and pookas and banshees, and all kinds of extraordinary creatures."

From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela




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