See sook in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1864, William Duncan Latto: Tammas Bodkin: Or, the Humours of a Scottish Tailor, page 378:",
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"ref": "1903, John Stevenson, Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting, page 182:",
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