pookah

English

Noun

pookah (plural pookahs)

1. Alternative form of pooka (“supernatural creature”)
   • 1833, “All Saints Eve”, in The Knickerbocker: or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 2, page 195:

     So I tould her how father Patt consinted to lind us the lone of his baste, and how I was to frickin them all, an how whin they run'd away from the Pookah, manin mysel, she was to run away wid biro, manin me.

   • 2002, Tim Pat Coogan, Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora, →ISBN, page 576:

     Messinger says that: The pookah that we discovered is seen occasionally on moonlight nights on the road in front of the Catholic Church in St Patrick's village.

   • 2010, T L Johnston, Swordsinger - Volume 2, →ISBN:

     On the fourth day, the Pookah reached down and suddenly pulled a long and feathery fish from the sea.