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First published 2005 (SND, online supplement).
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MOOK, v., n. I. v. To drain a whisky cask of residue. Also n. whisky thus obtained. Arg. 1992:
Mookin was the practice of going down Campbeltown old quay and draining empty — but not quite empty — casks of residue of whisky or (according to A Colville) "wine colouring for new whisky". A bung would be knocked out and the contents of the cask tipped into a bucket.Arg. 1992:
Donnie Gilchrist's older brother wiz mookin doon the quay, he had that much mook in him he coollapsed an died.