nooked

English

Etymology

nook +‎ -ed

Adjective

nooked (not comparable)

  1. Having nooks.
    • 1920, Robert Shackleton, The Book of Philadelphia, page 35:
      Turn down Willing's Alley, to the westward, between tall warehouses, and you come to an iron-gated archway, on your right, which leads you through a building and into a nooked courtyard— and here, in this nooked and unsuspected corner, is the church!
    • 2001, Alan Bissett, Damage Land: New Scottish Gothic Fiction, page 55:
      Maybe it was too difficult to negotiate, too obviously nooked and crannied […]
    • 2012, John M. Garzone, Crazed Control, page 157:
      Paula mused over the idea as she took small bites of her nooked and crannied muffin.

Verb

nooked

  1. simple past and past participle of nook
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