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rooking

rooking is the present participle and gerund of rook.

Meaning of rook

Verb (1)

rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)

  1. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
    • They rook one shockingly at these places.1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    Synonyms:
    cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindle, trick

Verb (2)

rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)

  1. (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
    • The raven rook'd her on the chimney's topc. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

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Noun

rooking (plural rookings)

  1. An act or instance of cheating or swindling.
    • Wide-eyed, staring up into the darkness, he pondered the problem of giving Babe a well-deserved rooking.1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 14, column 1

Forms of rooking

pluralrookings

Questions about rooking

What does rooking mean?
Rooking means an act or instance of cheating or swindling.
What is rooking the present participle and gerund of?
Rooking is the present participle and gerund of rook.
What part of speech is rooking?
Rooking is a noun.
What is the plural of rooking?
The plural of rooking is rookings.

Words near rooking in the dictionary

  1. rookied
  2. rookielike
  3. rookier
  4. rookies
  5. rookiest
  6. rooking
  7. rookings
  8. rookish
  9. rookless
  10. rooklet
  11. rooklets

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