sooterkin

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To suffocate him as a monster, or a sooterkin, seemed the only punishment of which he was worthy And here it is necessary I should inform the reader of a secret, of which I was myself at that time and long continued to remain utterly ignorant.

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  1. A kind of false birth fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves (Johnson)′, hence, an abortive scheme or attempt. He has all the pangs and throes of a fanciful poet, but is never delivered of any more perfect issue of his phlegmatick brain than a dull Dutchwoman's sooterkin is of her body. Dryden, Remarks on The Empress of Morocco. All that on Folly Frenzy could beget, Fruits of dull heat and sooterkins of wit. Pope, Dunciad, i. 126.

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  • Sculley is certain the pup is a sooterkin, a harelike goblinish creature apparently born in centuries past to a number of Dutch women. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 06 - June 2001
  • To suffocate him as a monster, or a sooterkin, seemed the only punishment of which he was worthy And here it is necessary I should inform the reader of a secret, of which I was myself at that time and long continued to remain utterly ignorant. —  The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
  • To suffocate him as a monster, or a sooterkin, seemed the only punishment of which he was worthy. —  The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
  • For after-birth a sooterkin; —  The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1
 

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  1. apparently of Dutch origin, but no corresponding D. term appears.
 

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