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See also:Rookandröök

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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A rook (bird)

Noun

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rook (countable anduncountable,pluralrooks)

  1. A Europeanbird,Corvus frugilegus, of thecrow family.
    • 1768, Thomas Pennant,British Zoology,page168:
      But what distinguishes therook from the crow is the bill; the nostrils, chin, and sides of that and the mouth being in old birds white and bared of feathers, by often thrusting the bill into the ground in search of the erucæ of the Dor-beetle*; the rook then, instead of being proscribed, should be treated as the farmer's friend; as it clears his ground from caterpillars, that do incredible damage by eating the roots of the corn.
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XV”, inIn Memoriam, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC,page24:
      To-night the winds begin to rise
      ⁠And roar from yonder dropping day:
      ⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
      Therooks are blown about the skies; […]
  2. Acheat orswindler; someone whobetrays.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:deceiver,Thesaurus:fraudster
    • 7 April1705, William Wycherley, Letter to Alexander Pope inThe Works of Alexander Pope36:
      So I am (like an oldrook, who is ruined by gaming) forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men, whose fancies are so vigorous that they ensure their success in their adventures with Muses, by their strength and imagination.
  3. A bad deal; arip-off.
  4. (British) A type offirecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
  5. (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
    • 2007, Malcolm Bull, Keith Lockhart,Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream,page174:
      Adventists still do not really know how to play cards, apart from the sanitized version of bridge,Rook.
  6. (slang, archaic) Aparson.
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Translations
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bird
swindler
card game

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Verb

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rook (third-person singular simple presentrooks,present participlerooking,simple past and past participlerooked)

  1. (transitive) Tocheat or swindle.
    • 1974,GB Edwards,The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published2007, page311:
      Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how torook the visitors over there.
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Hyponyms
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Translations
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cheat, swindle

Etymology 2

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A rook (chess)

Inherited fromMiddle Englishrook,rooke,roke,rok, fromOld Frenchroc, ultimately fromPersianرخ(rox), fromMiddle Persianlhw'(rox,“rook, castle (chess)”). Compareroc.

Noun

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rook (pluralrooks)

  2. (chess) Apiece shaped like a castletower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but notdiagonally) or incastling.
  3. (rare) Acastle or otherfortification.
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Translations
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chesspiece
fortification
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Chess pieces in English ·chess pieces,chessmen (see also:chess)(layout ·text)
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kingqueenrook,castlebishopknightpawn

Etymology 3

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Fromrookie.

Noun

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rook (pluralrooks)

  1. (baseball, slang) Arookie.

Etymology 4

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishroke,rock,rok(“mist; vapour; drizzle; smoke; fumes”), fromOld Norse*rauk, related toIcelandicrok,roka(“whirlwind; seafoam; seaspray”),Middle Dutchrooc,rok, ModernDutchrook(“smoke; fog”).

Noun

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rook (uncountable)

  1. mist;fog;roke

Etymology 5

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Verb

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rook (third-person singular simple presentrooks,present participlerooking,simple past and past participlerooked)

  1. (obsolete) Tosquat; toruck.

Etymology 6

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Verb

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rook (third-person singular simple presentrooks,present participlerooking,simple past and past participlerooked)

  1. Pronunciation spelling oflook, mimicking Asian speech.

References

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  1. ^Walker, John (1791), “Rook”, inA Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] ,London: G. G. J. andJ. Robinſon […] and T.Cadell,→OCLC,page439, column 3 of 3.

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromDutchrook(“smoke”), fromMiddle Dutchrôoc, fromOld Dutch*rōk, fromProto-Germanic*raukiz.

Noun

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rook (uncountable)

  1. smoke
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Etymology 2

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Inherited fromDutchroken(“to smoke”).

Verb

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rook (presentrook,present participlerokende,past participlegerook)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) tosmoke(a tobacco product or surrogate)

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromMiddle Dutchrôoc, fromOld Dutch*rōk, fromProto-Germanic*raukiz.

Noun

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rook m (uncountable,nodiminutive)

  1. smoke
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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rook

  1. inflection ofroken:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

Verb

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rook

  1. singularpastindicative ofruiken
  2. singularpastindicative ofrieken

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