sooler
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -uːlə(ɹ)
Noun edit
sooler (plural soolers)
- (Australia) Agitator, inciter; hawk (sense 2), warmonger
- 1921 February 6, The Sunday Mirror[1], Perth, WA:
- According to the doctors (except one) giving evidence in the Mable inquiry, every person who possesses rooted prejudices, whether founded on basic facts or not, is a paranoic. On this medical ruling 'The Mirror' herewith submits a list of paranoics: […] Every sooler who convinced himself the war was for democracy […]
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia[2], page 120:
- Then a war-monger, or Sooler, as such people were called in the locality, made his voice heard in the land.
- 2015, Peter Cochrane, Book review: Before Rupert - Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty, theconversation.com, November 12, 2015, [3]
- The Monash vignette is but a small part of Roberts’ rich account of Murdoch’s role in the war as chief propagandist for Prime Minister Billy Hughes, chief “sooler-on” in the recruitment and conscription campaigns, chief race patriot and otherwise tireless climber.