Nook Definition

no͝ok
nooks
noun
nooks
A corner of a room, or a part of a room cut off from the main part.
A breakfast nook.
Webster's New World
A small recess or secluded spot; retreat.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Nook

Noun

Singular:
nook
Plural:
nooks

Origin of Nook

  • From Middle English noke, nok (“nook, corner, angle"), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots neuk, nuk (“corner, angle of a square, angular object"). 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 nokke (“hook"), Swedish nocke (“hook"), Faroese nokki (“crook"), Icelandic hnokki (“hook"), Dutch nok (“ridge"), Low German Nocke (“tip"), Old Norse hnúka (“to bend, crouch"), Old English Ä¡ehnycned (“drawn, pinched, wrinkled").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English nok probably of Scandinavian origin Norwegian dialectal nōk hook

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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