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tooke

tooke is the obsolete spelling of took.

Proper noun capitalized: Tooke

Tooke (plural Tookes)

  1. A surname from Old Norse.

Forms of tooke

pluralTookes
alternative formTook

Origin of tooke

From Old Norse Tóki, a short form of the personal name Þorketill.

Words formed from tooke

Questions about tooke

What does tooke mean?
Tooke means a surname from Old Norse.
What is tooke the obsolete spelling of?
Tooke is the obsolete spelling of took.
What part of speech is tooke?
Tooke is a proper noun.

Words near tooke in the dictionary

  1. took up the slack
  2. took up with
  3. took upon oneself
  4. took water
  5. took with
  6. tooke
  7. Tookean
  8. tooken
  9. Tooker
  10. Tookers
  11. Tookes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tooke (page history and authors); Tooke (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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