nook
/nʊk/
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Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
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1
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3
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Meaning
noun
A corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land.
Archaic
verb
To withdraw into a nook.
verb
To situate in a nook.
Example Sentences
- "There was a small broom for sweeping ash kept in the nook between the fireplace bricks and the wall."
- "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."
- "It would be such a bummer if people were bored at this dance. We need something that... we could use backdrops for photos or... hangout nooks! Nooks are very important."
- "All right. Well, uh, glad to be here in this cozy nook."
- "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; [...]"
- "You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land."
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”).
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Knook
(foot-goose merger) nuke