Crossword-Solution: POOKA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POOKA | anagram | KOOPA, OOPAK |
We have 7 clues for the answer “POOKA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Gaelic goblin | 1 answer |
| HARVEY | 1 answer |
| Irish goblin | 1 answer |
| Puck's Irish counterpart | 1 answer |
| Specter in Irish lore | 1 answer |
| Sprite of Irish folklore | 1 answer |
| A MISCHIEVOUS ELF IN IRISH FOLKLORE | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POOKA (5)
The blackberries that were good to eat the day before are no good on November day, because the Pooka touched them the night before.
From that day to this Morag nor Flann ever saw sight of the Pooka and his big, black, snorting and foaming horse.
But it’s my consate that they was all fools to be afther fightin’ consarnin’ wan woman whin the worruld is full o’ thim, an’ any wan competint to give a man plenty to think av, bekase whin she gives her attinshun to it, any woman can be the divil complately." [Illustration: "All disconsarted entirely"] TAMING THE POOKA.
But sorra a sinner that hadn’t been to his juty reglar ’ud iver see the light av day agin afther meetin’ a Pooka thin, for the baste ’ud aither kick him to shmithereens where he stud, or lift him on his back wid his teeth an’ jump into the say wid him, thin dive, lavin’ him to dhrownd, or shpring over a clift wid him an’ tumble him to the bottom a bleedin’ corpse.
But wasn’t there the howls av joy whin a Pooka ’ud catch a sinner unbeknownst, an’ fetch him on the Corkschrew wan o’ the nights Satan was there.
Quotes with POOKA (2)
Her uneasy gaze skittered along the length of his arms, which were exposed by his rolled-up shirtsleeves... and stopped at the astonishing sight of a design that had been inked onto his right forearm. It was a small black horse with wings. Noticing her mesmerized stare, Rohan lowered his arm to give her a better view. "An Irish symbol," he murmured. "A nightmare horse, called a pooka." The absurd-sounding word brought a faint smile to Daisy's lips. "Does it wash off?" she ask…
How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is one peopled by demons, phantoms, vampires, ghouls, boggarts, and nixies. Names of things of which I knew nothing are now so familiar that the creatures themselves appear to have real existence. The Arabian Nights are not more fantastic than our gospels; and Lempriere would have found ours a more marvelous world to catalog than the classical mythical to which he devoted his lea…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, S&S.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1970–2004).