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pookoo

pookoo is the obsolete form of puku.

Meaning of puku

Noun (1)

puku (plural pukus)

  1. A medium-sized antelope found in Central Africa (Kobus vardonii).

Noun (2)

puku (plural pukus or puku)

  1. (New Zealand) The belly.
    • He groaned loud with his mouth open. Then he wet himself. And then he rolled over on to his puku.2011, Anahera Gildea, Anita Tipene, Ann French, Huia Short Stories 9: Contemporary Maori Fiction, volume 9

Forms of pookoo

pluralpookoos

Questions about pookoo

What is pookoo the obsolete form of?
Pookoo is the obsolete form of puku.

Words near pookoo in the dictionary

  1. pookhauns
  2. pookie
  3. pookie bear
  4. pookie bears
  5. pookies
  6. pookoo
  7. pookoos
  8. Pooky
  9. pool
  10. pool at the crook
  11. pool boy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pookoo (page history and authors); puku (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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