单词 | nooking |
释义 | nookingn. English regional (northern). Now rare. A nook, a corner; an inglenook. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner > internal or pointing inward > in an enclosed space or a nook anglea1325 nookc1380 cantona1533 quoin1795 nooking1828 ingle1877 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Nookin, a nook or corner. 1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life II. ix. 183 ‘Cheap literature’ was not then, as now, to be found in every out-o'-the-way nooking. 1879 W. Henderson Notes Folk-lore Northern Counties (rev. ed.) i Seated in his former place by the neukin. 1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore 155 Newkin, a nook. 1997 K. Cameron Place-names Lincs. V. 3 Nooking Lane..from dial. nooking ‘a nook’ common in north L[incolnshire]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1828 |
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