sool
sool verb: to encourage (especially a dog) to attack.
Verb
sool (third-person singular simple present sools, present participle sooling, simple past and past participle sooled)
- 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.
- 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.1896, K. Langloh Parker, Australian Legendary Tales, Nutt, page 91
- Synonyms:
- sic
Examples of sool in a sentence
- I sooled the dog on them, but they only climbed trees and laughed from there.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 242:
- 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.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, pages 120–121:
Synonyms of sool
Forms of sool
| third-person singular present | sools |
|---|---|
| present participle | sooling |
| past participle | sooled |
| past | sooled |
Words formed from sool
Words that rhyme with sool
42 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ghoul
- spool
- doole
- pule
- yule
- buhl
- huemul
- Juul
- misrule
- poule
- rocking stool
- you'll
- 6-2-1 rule
- adverse interest rule
- aemule
- babul
- befool
- bool
- cagoule
- crool
- emule
- firefighter's rule
- gigajoule
- grool
- gule
- hool
- hydrocool
- joule
- kewl
- kilojoule
- megajoule
- mewl
- pasta fazool
- petajoule
- retool
- shul
- snool
- terajoule
- torchecul
- tulle
- uncool
- yottajoule
Questions about sool
- What does sool mean?
- Sool means to encourage (especially a dog) to attack.
- How do you use sool in a sentence?
- I sooled the dog on them, but they only climbed trees and laughed from there.
- What part of speech is sool?
- Sool is a verb.
- What is the past tense of sool?
- The past tense of sool is sooled.
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