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nook

noun
/nʊk/

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”).

  1. derived from *ken-✻
  2. derived from *knewg-✻
  3. inherited from *hnukkaz✻
  4. inherited from hnoc
  5. inherited from noke

Definitions

  1. A small corner formed by two walls

    A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.

    • There was a small broom for sweeping ash kept in the nook between the fireplace bricks and the wall.

  2. A hidden or secluded spot

    A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.

    • 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.

  3. A recess, cove or hollow.

    • 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; [...]
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.

      • 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.

    2. A corner of a piece of land

      A corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land.

      • 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; [...]

    3. The vagina-like genitalia of a troll, featured in Homestuck fanworks but not in canon.

      • 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.

    4. To withdraw into a nook.

      • '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.

    5. To situate in a nook.

      • 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.

    6. A surname.

    7. A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nook. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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