Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many nooks and corners; having a coast indented with gulfs, bays, friths, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. or Prov. Eng. Full of nooks, angles, or corners.
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The southeastern portion of the island of Newfoundland, as may be seen by a glance at the map, may be well described by that expressive epithet of "nook-shotten," which in Shakspeare is applied to the mother-island of which it is a dependent.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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The provinces, to the very farthest nook of these "nook-shotten" islands, react upon London as powerfully as London acts upon _them_; so that no counterpoise is required with us, as in France it is, to any inordinate influence at the centre.
Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Hellas -- as a 'nook-shotten' [14] land, nautically accessible and laid down in seas that were studded with islands systematically adjusted to the continental circumstances, whilst internally her mountainous structure had split up almost the whole of her territory into separate chambers or wards, predetermining from the first that galaxy of little republics into which her splintered community threw itself by means of the strong mutual repulsion derived originally from battlements of hills, and, secondarily, from the existing state of the military art.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
sionnach commented on the word nook-shotten
I am surprised, nay shocked, that the immortal phrase of excoriation "nook-shotten Norwegians" has not yet made it onto this page. Better late than never.
Here is the link: maunderings of nook-shotten Norwegians
The phrase is taken from the shriek of execration that constituted the press reaction to the premiere of Ibsen's "Ghosts" in London.
See also the English press reaction to Ibsen's "Ghosts"
October 11, 2012