nook
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English noke, nok (“nook, corner, angle”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English hnoc, hnocc (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Germanic *hnukkaz, *hnukkô (“a bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *knewg- (“to turn, press”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to pinch, press, bend”).
If so, then also related to Scots nok (“small hook”), Norwegian dialectal nok, nokke (“hook, angle, bent object”), Danish nok (“hook”), Swedish nock (“ridge”), Faroese nokki (“crook”), Icelandic hnokki (“hook”), Dutch nok (“ridge”) or Dutch hoek (“corner”), Low German Nocke (“tip”), Old Norse hnúka (“to bend, crouch”), Old English ġehnycned (“drawn, pinched, wrinkled”). Also cognate with Scots neuk, nuk (“corner, angle of a square, angular object”).
Inflected forms:
form: nooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nuke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nooked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
pos: noun
examples: There was a small broom for sweeping ash kept in the nook between the fireplace bricks and the wall.
gloss: A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.
pos: noun
examples: The back of the used book shop was one of her favorite nooks; she could read for hours and no one would bother her or pester her to buy.
All right. Well, uh, glad to be here in this cozy nook.
gloss: A recess, cove or hollow.
pos: noun
examples: Ar. Safely in harbour / Is the Kings ſhippe, in the deepe Nooke, where once / Thou calldſt me vp at midnight to fetch dewe / From the ſtill-vext Bermoothes, there ſhe's hid; [...]
gloss: An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.
Nook, an old legal term for 12+¹⁄₂ acres of land; still in use at Alston.
They poured their wine by the aume or the fust, and cut their cloth by the goad—not to be confused with the gawd, which was a measure of steel. Their nook was not cosy; it covered 20 acres.
gloss: A corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
archaic
examples: The ancient bounds of the cow paſture of Penrith, [...] and then from the ſaid Old Dyke end, alongſt Plumpton Dyke Eaſt over Petterel unto Plumpton park nuke, otherwiſe called Plumpton nuke; [...]
The bounder beginneth at the east nuke of the Carter, and from thence extendeth eastward upon the height of the edge to Robscleugh Score, and from thence to Phillip's cross, so to the Spittopnuke, from thence to Greenlaw, so to the height of the Brown Hartlaw, and from thence along the high street to the nuke of the Blakelaw, and from thence to Hemmier's Well, where Ridsdale and Cookdale meet, all wᵉʰ is a bounder against Scotland.
gloss: The vagina-like genitalia of a troll, featured in Homestuck fanworks but not in canon.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
examples: i NEEEEEEEED A NICE BIG HIGH8LOODED 8ULGE UP MY NOOK THIS SECOND!
Vriska is too trashy to shave her nook.
the vriska i roleplay specifically just has a nook because i like drawin vaginas.
gloss: To withdraw into a nook.
pos: verb
examples: Mrs. Fluent was nooked with their hostess in the corner of another, a retiring woman, remarkably pretty withal, as your ministers' wives generally are, and no wonder, since the ministers, if at all popular, usually have their pick among the young lambs — we mean the young ladies — of their flocks.
'Tis the marrow of health In the forest to lie, Where, nooking in stealth, They enjoy her supply
The author of Aunt Jeannie, the play in which Mrs. Patrick Campbell has starred, makes one of his characters say : " Half the time you were nooking with Daisy, the rest with Mrs. Halton.
We laughed, we loved, we nooked. And it worked.
gloss: To situate in a nook.
pos: verb
examples: The city of Gotham is an island, as we have said; and once it was a beautiful island, affording to the gaze of him who sailed along its shores, an agreeable mixture of rock and grove, topping hill and marshiy low ground, spakling here and there with the villas or country-houses of the wealthy Gothamites, mostly built of wood painted white, and adorned with long verandahs quite encircling them; or showing at some turn a humbler, but substantial abode, nooked under a mighty horse-chestnut, the headquarters of a milk-farm, with cattle (whose tinkling bells you could hear in the still evening) grazing on its wild up-hilly pasture-land.
Stairs descended to larders, pantries were cleverly nooked into alcoves, and beyond the open windows sprawled lush gardens.
There are yet more hives nooked into the very walls that encircle the city, and tucked in trees that edge the fields beyond the walls.
I think she saw that I was disappointed, and a trifle shy at going alone, so off we went together —Charmion a marvel of unobtrusive elegance in grey, and I "taking the eye” in sapphire-blue—along the breezy lane, past the closed gates of Uplands, through the shuttered High Street into the tiny square, in a corner of which the church was nooked, with the vicarage garden adjoining the churchyard.
Related words: inglenook
Derived words: any nook or cranny
any old nook or cranny
book nook
every nook and corner
every nook and cranny
every old nook and cranny
Heads Nook
ingle-nook
ingle nook
nook and corner
nook and cranny
nookery
nooklet
nooklike
nook or cranny
nook-shotten
nooky
Pocket Nook
reading nook
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