nooked

1. 1
   adjective

   Having nooks, the small corners, recesses or tucked-away spots of a place.

   The inn's nooked dining room, all alcoves and window seats, filled up early every evening.

   We spent the afternoon exploring the nooked and crannied lanes of the old town.

   Note

   The -ed here means having, as in wooded or walled: a nooked room is one with nooks. Writers often pair it with crannied, stretching the phrase nooks and crannies into a description of anything full of little corners and hollows, from a hidden Philadelphia courtyard to a muffin. It does not compare, so a room is nooked rather than more nooked.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of nook.

   Note

   The verb is regular, so one form covers the past (the cat nooked into the gap) and the participle (a key nooked behind a brick). Without an object it means tucking oneself away; with one it means fitting a thing into a corner or recess. Before a noun the spelling usually belongs to the adjective for places with nooks, so a nooked courtyard describes the place, not something done to it.

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