English

Verb

sool ‎(third-person singular simple present sools, present participle sooling, simple past and past participle sooled)

1. (Australia) To encourage to attack, especially a dog.

   My neighbour sooled her bull mastiff onto my chihuahua, because she was sick of its yapping and wanted it to meet its demise.

   • 1896, K. Langloh Parker, Australian Legendary Tales, Nutt, page 91:

     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.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, pp. 120-121,

     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.

Synonyms

• sic

Derived terms

• sooler

Usage notes

• Usually in the form to sool someone onto someone/something.

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *sooli. Cognate with Finnish suoli.

Noun

sool ‎(genitive soole, partitive soolt)

1. (anatomy) intestine, bowel, gut

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

Cognate with Finnish suola.

Noun

sool ‎(genitive soola, partitive soola)

1. salt

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• soolane