oonts

Updated: May 5, 2025

And Lord, how they smell!" "That," I answered, "is the effect of " "To the deuce with your mineralogy or anthromorphism or whatever you call it. I don't care what makes 'em smell. I only know they do as Kipling says of the oonts 'most awful vile. And there the beggars sit, and here we sit!" "If we could only see " I began. "And what good would that do us? Could we fight? No.

Rex Stout - Under the Andes

And this was perhaps decisive against the Dame's statement. "And I don't believe un neither. I think it bothered she. I believe 'tis a genteel word for a man as catches oonts. They call oonts MOLES in some parts, so p'r'aps they calls a man as catches moles a molar, as they calls a man as drives a mill a miller." "'Tis likely too, Gearge," said Abel. "Well! Molly we knows.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Jan of the Windmill