Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
nook .
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- noun Scotland A bend (e.g. in a coast) …the fleet, after exploring the harbours, had doubled the East Neuk, passed safely through St Andrews Bay, and entered the Firth of Tay. --Chronicles of Strathearn (1896) - Rev. John Hunter.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And stuff ( "neuk") me up as much as you can, because you'll still have to come along and pay for what you did.
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'neuk' differs from our 'nook' in sense, and is not the same word at all, as we shall presently see.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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"neuk" differs from our "nook" in sense, and is not the same word at all, as we shall presently see.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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But, to say truth, there is a leddy sits in our hall-neuk, maun have her hand in that as weel as in every other job.
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Mysie, what are ye sitting shaking and greeting in the chimney-neuk for?
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But at the last he gets a bottle from his plaid-neuk and holds it up to her; whereupon she came at once into
Lay Morals 2005
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He "jokingly" threatened to "neuk" (beat) them with a sjambok he said.
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Away down in my heart I knew what was coming, and I watched the woman loosen her tartan shawl and lay her infant in a neuk among the hedge roots.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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It was now abute the gloaming when my ain same Janet (heav'n sain her saul) was sitting sae bieldy in a bit neuk ayant the ingle, while the winsome weans gathering around their minnie were listing till some auld spae wife's tale o 'ghaists and worriecows; when on a sudden some ane tirled at the door pin.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various
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Threw his plaid into the neuk; "Never can I grieve thee;"
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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He "jokingly" threatened to "neuk" (beat) them with a sjambok he said.
July 28, 2015