sooterkin (plural sooterkins)
A mouse-like creature which, according to folklore, Dutch women who sit over stoves give birth to.
(figuratively) An abortive scheme.
(colloquial) A Dutch person.
• stinkeroo
Source: Wiktionary
Soot"er*kin, n. Etym: [Cf. Prov. G. suttern to boil gently.]
Definition: A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme. Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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