nooking
nooking noun: a corner, niche, or nook. Also the present participle and gerund of nook.
Noun
nooking (plural nookings)
- A corner, niche, or nook.
- Walden Common is, we think, well situated, because it is not a nooking in some particular road, but it is the way,—the royal highway,—to various places.1845, John Player, Sketches of Saffron Walden, and its vicinity, page 48
- If the villagers were too poor to purchase these books, new modes were adopted to satisfy their mental cravings, and the Book Clubs and Artisans' Libraries reared their heads in those obscure nookings, where, hitherto, the smithy, the village green, the "road ends," and the ale bench, had been the...1847, Christopher Thomson, The Autobiography of an Artisan, page 20
Also used as
nooking is also the present participle and gerund of nook.
Forms of nooking
| plural | nookings |
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Questions about nooking
- What does nooking mean?
- Nooking means a corner, niche, or nook.
- What part of speech is nooking?
- Nooking is a noun.
- What is the plural of nooking?
- The plural of nooking is nookings.
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