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nooked

nooked adjective: having nooks. Also the simple past and past participle of nook.

Adjective

nooked (not comparable)

  1. Having nooks.
    • Turn down Willing's Alley, to the westward, between tall warehouses, and you come to an iron-gated archway, on your right, which leads you through a building and into a nooked courtyard— and here, in this nooked and unsuspected corner, is the church!1920, Robert Shackleton, The Book of Philadelphia, page 35
    • Maybe it was too difficult to negotiate, too obviously nooked and crannied […]2001, Alan Bissett, Damage Land: New Scottish Gothic Fiction, page 55

Also used as

nooked is also the simple past and past participle of nook.

Origin of nooked

From nook + -ed.

Questions about nooked

What does nooked mean?
Nooked means having nooks.
What part of speech is nooked?
Nooked is an adjective.

Words near nooked in the dictionary

  1. nook and corner
  2. nook and cranny
  3. nook or cranny
  4. nook-shotten
  5. Nookat
  6. nooked
  7. nookeries
  8. nookery
  9. nookie
  10. nookie-bookie
  11. nookie-bookies

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