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inglenook

noun
/ˈɪŋɡ(ə)lnʊk/UK/ˈɪŋɡəlˌnʊk/US

Etymology

From ingle (“open fireplace”) + nook.

  1. derived from *ken-✻
  2. derived from *knewg-✻
  3. inherited from *hnukkaz✻
  4. inherited from hnoc
  5. inherited from noke
  6. compounded as inglenook — “ingle + nook”

Definitions

  1. A nook or corner beside an open fireplace

    A nook or corner beside an open fireplace; a chimney corner.

    • I ſat me in the ingle nook, / And joked wi my luver, / But a' the jokes that I cou'd crack, / The deel a ane could muve her.
    • The ingle-nook ſupplies the ſimmer-fields, / An' aft as mony gleefu' maments yields.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA