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ingle-nook

ingle-nook is the alternative form of inglenook.

Meaning of inglenook

Noun

inglenook (plural inglenooks)

  1. (historical) A nook or corner beside an open fireplace; a chimney corner.
    • I ſat me in the ingle nook, / And joked wi my luver, / But a' the jokes that I cou'd crack, / The deel a ane could muve her.1797 May, E. S. J., “A Song”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume LXVII, part I, number V, London: […] John Nichols, […]...

Forms of ingle-nook

pluralingle-nooks

Questions about ingle-nook

What is ingle-nook the alternative form of?
Ingle-nook is the alternative form of inglenook.

Words near ingle-nook in the dictionary

  1. ingirts
  2. Ingland
  3. ingle
  4. ingle nook
  5. ingle nooks
  6. ingle-nook
  7. ingle-nooks
  8. Ingleborough
  9. Ingleburn
  10. Ingleby
  11. Ingleby Barwick

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ingle-nook (page history and authors); inglenook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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