nooking

Pluralnookings

1. 1
   verb

   The -ing form of nook. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.

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2. 2
   nounobsolete

   A small corner, or a little space set back into a wall or room.

   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 WaldenHere, nooking means a corner or small tucked-away spot.

   My great want was books; I was too poor to purchase expensive ones, and the 'cheap literature' was not then, as now, to be found in every out-o'-the-way nooking.

   1864, Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life During Half a CenturyHere, nooking means a corner or small out-of-the-way place.

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