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Definition of Sooterkin

Sooterkin
Sooterkin Soot"er*kin, n. [Cf. Prov. G. suttern to boil gently.] 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.

Meaning of Sooterkin from wikipedia

- A sooterkin is a fabled small creature about the size of a mouse that certain women were believed to have been capable of giving birth to. The origin...
- 1727 Douglas also published The Sooterkin Dissected. A letter to Maubray, Douglas was scathingly critical of his sooterkin theory, calling it "a mere fiction...
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- understand." Maubray was ****ociated with the peculiar concept of the Sooterkin, which held that pregnant women who were regularly in the presence of...
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- Thundersday. In September 2017, he released an instrumental album entitled The Sooterkin Library, a trio project that Smolin describes as "12-tone avant-freak...
- ). Century. p. 267. ISBN 9780712637336. The Dictionary of Disgusting Facts excerpt "Sootikin" urban legend debunked Actual definition of "sooterkin."...