pookit

But I was obliged to put on an additional box at the Gill, to hold the fresh eggs (!), 'pookit fools,' and other delicacies she loaded me with.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

Windsor, and we reached our temporary home in Norfolk Street about four o'clock in the morning, well satisfied with what we had seen, -- but all the meantime I had forgotten the loss of the flap of my coat, which caused no little sport when I came to recollect what a pookit like body I must have been, walking about in the king's policy like a peacock without my tail.

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809