sool
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːl
Verb
sool (third-person singular simple present sools, present participle sooling, simple past and past participle sooled)
- (Australia) To encourage (especially a dog) to attack.
- My neighbour sooled her bull mastiff onto my chihuahua, because she was sick of its yapping and wanted it to meet its demise.
- 1896, K. Langloh Parker, Australian Legendary Tales, Nutt, page 91:
- She went quickly towards her camp, calling softly, "Birree gougou," which meant "Sool 'em, sool 'em," and was the signal for the dogs to come out.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, pp. 120-121, [1]
- So he had to satisfy his lust for homicide with passing on the urges of the Propagandists and sooling the able-bodied off to war and hounding pacifists and enemies into retirement.
Usage notes
- Usually in the form "sool someone onto someone/something".
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Estonian
Etymology 1
From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.. Cognate with Finnish suoli.
Noun
sool (genitive soole, partitive soolt)
Declension
| Declension of sool (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sool | sooled | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | soole | ||
| genitive | soolte | ||
| partitive | soolt | sooli | |
| illative | soolde soolesse |
sooltesse soolisse | |
| inessive | sooles | sooltes soolis | |
| elative | soolest | sooltest soolist | |
| allative | soolele | sooltele soolile | |
| adessive | soolel | sooltel soolil | |
| ablative | soolelt | sooltelt soolilt | |
| translative | sooleks | soolteks sooliks | |
| terminative | sooleni | soolteni | |
| essive | soolena | sooltena | |
| abessive | sooleta | soolteta | |
| comitative | soolega | sooltega | |
Etymology 2
From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.. Cognate with Finnish suola.
Noun
sool (genitive soola, partitive soola)
Declension
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Derived terms
Karao
Noun
sool