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  • noun Plural form of pooka.
  • verb third-person singular simple present tense of pooka

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Examples

  • It's easy enough to choose if you only like vampires, or have a contract to write a story about a demon, or just got a nifty new book about pookas.

    Choosing Your Paranormal Creature Victoria Janssen 2010

  • 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.

    Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010

  • She tr êies to help Tamsin and gets involved with ghosts, boggarts, pookas and the Wild Hunt.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Freedomstar 2009

  • She tr êies to help Tamsin and gets involved with ghosts, boggarts, pookas and the Wild Hunt.

    Peter Beagle Freedomstar 2009

  • That, or my apartment has been invaded by little pookas or brownies determined to raise my anxiety levels by doing strange things with socks.

    Six Feet Under mariness 2007

  • A few snippets from our interview were interspersed through the I-Con segment, amongst conversations with pookas, plushies, and one precocious little girl in angel wings who couldn't stop using the word "inappropriate."

    The Bilmo Watch: Tonight on Trio's "Parking Lot" shunn 2004

  • A few snippets from our interview were interspersed through the I-Con segment, amongst conversations with pookas, plushies, and one precocious little girl in angel wings who couldn't stop using the word "inappropriate."

    The Bilmo Watch: Tonight on Trio's "Parking Lot" shunn 2004

  • Me, I'd found a paperback about the Irish revolution and how de Valera raised pookas against the British.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • The girls went to bed and fell asleep thinking about pookas and fairies and all kinds of enchanted beings.

    Girls To The Rescue Book #3 Bruce Lansky 1997

  • Your grandpa has lots of stories about the banshees and the little people and the spirits and the pookas.

    Girls To The Rescue Book #3 Bruce Lansky 1997

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