

Oct 22, 2015 This week’s theme

Words derived from Dutch



This week’s words

hogen-mogen

toenadering

poppycock

sooterkin

brabble



Words derived from Dutch A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



sooterkin PRONUNCIATION: (SOO-tuhr-kin)

MEANING: noun:

1. A sweetheart or mistress.

2. An afterbirth formerly believed to be gotten by Dutch women by warming themselves on stoves.

3. Something imperfect or unsuccessful.

ETYMOLOGY: Apparently from Dutch zoet (sweet). Earliest documented use: 1530.

USAGE: “sooterkin, my twin

how oft I see you in dark corners of this room

so like our early home, a hot dark womb”

Alison Calder; Wolf Tree; Coteau Books; 2007.



“Dr. Maubray even claimed that he had seen and delivered a sooterkin when he was traveling on a ferry from Harlingen to Amsterdam and a woman fell into labor on board.”

Jan Bondeson; A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities; W.W. Norton; 1999.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Think for yourself and question authority. -Timothy Leary, psychologist and writer (22 Oct 1920-1996)





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