Crossword-Solution: STOO 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 4

She made inquiries at the baker's and at other places about the kitchens in the great houses in Brobdingnag Gardens, and how many spits, bangmarry-pans, and stoo-pans they had.

They called out, “To-stoo!” and I understood that the strangers were afraid they were bringing toad-stools.

HERE in the flamin' thick of thick of things, With Death across the way, 'n' traps What little Fritz the German flings Explodin' in yer lunch pe'aps, It ain't all glory for a bloke', It ain't all corfee 'ot and stoo, Nor wavin' banners in the smoke, Or practisin' the bay'net stroke-- We has our little troubles, too! Here's Trigger Ribb bin seein' red 'N' raisin' Cain because he had, Back in the caverns iv his 'ead, A 'oller tooth run ravin' mad.

Puck, the mischievous king of the fairies, has been commonly identified with _pogge_, the toad, which was believed to sit upon most of the unwholesome fungi; and the _Champignon_ (or Paddock Stool) was said to owe its growth to "those wanton elves whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms." One of the "toad stoo's" (the _Clathrus cancellatus_) is said to produce cancerous sores if handled too freely.

After _r_ and in a few other positions we cannot easily give it any other sound, but we need not say _soot′-a-ble, soo-per-noo-mer-a-ry; nor noos, stoo,_ etc.