English Explanatory Dictionary

hook

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
  2. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
  3. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
  4. The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
  5. The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
  6. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
  7. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
  8. A snare; a trap.
  9. An advantageous hold.
  10. The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
  11. Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
  12. A field sown two years in succession.
verb
  1. To attach a hook to.
  2. To become attached, as by a hook.
  3. To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
  4. To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
  5. To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
  6. To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
  7. To steal.
  8. To connect (hook into, hook together).
  9. To make addicted; to captivate.
  10. To acquire as a spouse.
  11. To play a hook shot.
  12. To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
  3. A hamlet in Wimblington parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TF4293).
  4. A hamlet in Chardstock parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST3005).
  5. A village and civil parish near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7625).
  6. A suburb in the borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1865).
  7. A large village and civil parish in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7254).
  8. A hamlet in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5005).
  9. A hamlet in Timsbury parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6758).
  10. A village in Lydiard Tregoze parish, near Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0784).
  11. A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9711).
  12. A rural locality in South Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, on the Hook River.
noun
  1. Alternative form of Hoek (“member of Dutch faction”)

Pronunciation

ho͝ok /hʊk/ /huːk/ /hʉk/ en-us-hook.ogg en-au-hook.ogg

Word forms

hook hooks hooking hooked

Etymology

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc (“angle, point, hook”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Cognates Cognate with Scots huke, huik (“hook”), West Frisian and Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk, German Hook (“small cluster of farms”), Faroese høkja (“crutch”), Icelandic hækja (“crutch”), Norn hek (“crutch”), Finnish kuokka (“hoe, mattock”). Related to hake.

Synonyms

endpoint hooker shoulder

Related words

Hook Norton

Derived words

Aberdeen hook amnihook anal hook armhook baithook bench hook bid hook bill-hook bill hook blue hook star boat hook boat-hook boathook Bombay Hook boothook breasthook Brummel hook brush hook bullhook butcher's hook butthook buttonhook by hook or by crook cabin hook can hook cant hook check hook chimney hook closet hook clove hook coat hook coathook crochet hook deck hook dehook diacritical hook dog hook draught hook drawhook eyehook eye hook fifi hook firehook fish hook fish-hook theory fishing hook fleshhook foothook forehook Gedge hook gorge hook grapplehook grasshook gut hook heddle hook heel hook hookable hook above hook-and-bullet hook and eye

Translations

French: hook Greek: άγκιστρο Macedonian: кука Russian: хук Ukrainian: хук
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