nook

noun

1. 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 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. (historical)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.”

5. (Northern-England, archaic)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; [...]”

   “The bounder beginneth at the east nuke of the Carter, and from thence extendeth eastward upon the height of the edge to Robscleugh Score, and from thence to Phillip's cross, so to the Spittopnuke, from thence to Greenlaw, so to the height of the Brown Hartlaw, and from thence along the high street to the nuke of the Blakelaw, and from thence to Hemmier's Well, where Ridsdale and Cookdale meet, all wᵉʰ is a bounder against Scotland.”

6. (vulgar)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.”

verb

1. To withdraw into a nook.

   “Mrs. Fluent was nooked with their hostess in the corner of another, a retiring woman, remarkably pretty withal, as your ministers' wives generally are, and no wonder, since the ministers, if at all popular, usually have their pick among the young lambs — we mean the young ladies — of their flocks.”

   “'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.”

   “We laughed, we loved, we nooked. And it worked.”

2. 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.”

   “I think she saw that I was disappointed, and a trifle shy at going alone, so off we went together —Charmion a marvel of unobtrusive elegance in grey, and I "taking the eye” in sapphire-blue—along the breezy lane, past the closed gates of Uplands, through the shuttered High Street into the tiny square, in a corner of which the church was nooked, with the vicarage garden adjoining the churchyard.”

name

1. A surname.
2. A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.