sool

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• Rhymes: -uːl

sool (third-person singular simple present sools, present participle sooling, simple past and past participle sooled)

1. (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, chapter VIII, in Capricornia‎, pages 120-121:

     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.

• Usually in the form "sool someone onto someone/something".

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• sooler

• Loos, OOLs, Oslo, loos, sloo, solo

From Proto-Finnic *sooli. Cognate with Finnish suoli.

sool (genitive soole, partitive soolt)

1. (anatomy) intestine, bowel, gut

From Proto-Finnic *soola. Cognate with Finnish suola.

sool (genitive soola, partitive soola)

1. salt

• soolane

sool

1. adessive singular of sugu

sool

1. share of harvested rice that goes to the person who helps harvest someone else's field