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- noun   Plural form of pooka .
- verb   third-person singular simple present tense of pooka 
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Examples
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								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 
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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. 
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								She tr êies to help Tamsin and gets involved with ghosts, boggarts, pookas and the Wild Hunt. Archive 2009-08-01 Freedomstar 2009 
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								She tr êies to help Tamsin and gets involved with ghosts, boggarts, pookas and the Wild Hunt. Peter Beagle Freedomstar 2009 
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								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 
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								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." 
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								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." 
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								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 
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								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 
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								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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