sool
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -uːl
VerbEdit
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 notesEdit
- Usually in the form "sool someone onto someone/something".
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EstonianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Finnic *sooli. Cognate with Finnish suoli.
NounEdit
sool (genitive soole, partitive soolt)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of sool (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sool | sooled |
accusative | soole | sooled |
genitive | soole | 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 2Edit
From Proto-Finnic *soola. Cognate with Finnish suola.
NounEdit
sool (genitive soola, partitive soola)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of sool (type külm)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sool | soolad |
genitive | soola | soolade |
partitive | soola | sooli / soolasid |
illative | soola / soolasse | sooladesse / soolisse |
inessive | soolas | soolades / soolis |
elative | soolast | sooladest / soolist |
allative | soolale | sooladele / soolile |
adessive | soolal | sooladel / soolil |
ablative | soolalt | sooladelt / soolilt |
translative | soolaks | sooladeks / sooliks |
terminative | soolani | sooladeni |
essive | soolana | sooladena |
abessive | soolata | sooladeta |
comitative | soolaga | sooladega |
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Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
sool
KaraoEdit
NounEdit
sool