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Definition of Sootirkin

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.

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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

SOOTERKIN. A joke upon the Dutch women, supposing
that, by their constant use of stoves, which they place
under their petticoats, they breed a kind of small animal in
their bodies, called a sooterkin, of the size of a mouse,
which when mature slips out.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)

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