hook – English noun declension

English noun forms of hook

Noun: hook
Singularhook
Pluralhooks

Sample Sentences

  • "If I were a pirate and lost my hand, I would ask them to replace it with a computer mouse rather than a hook. I use a computer mouse all day, and I only use a hook three to five times a day."¶ -Emma Stone¶ On hooks [2019 February 19, Clickhole, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2022, This quote is falsely attributed to Emma Stone for humorous effect:]
  • [1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:]
  • Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers: [...] [1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 138:]
  • A shop of all the qualities, that man
  • Loues woman for, besides that hooke of Wiuing, [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:]
  • “What makes you so sure that nobody knows you've got a hook into him?” Ward asked. [2020, Joel W. Barrows, Deep Red Cover:]
  • He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.
  • Much of the Two in Twenty humor is insider stuff; this soap is clearly made for lesbians who have been around the city block, with a few road trips to Michigan. Gay men may love it as well, and others with a hook into contemporary urban dyke life. [1988 February 7, Elizabeth Pincus, “A Romp Through Lavender Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 7:]
  • If you're struggling to get a hook on the scale of it, that's the North Stand at Leicester Tigers, plus six Peter Crouches, or half a Clock Tower. [2022 September 12, leicsmiscellany, Twitter:]
  • The hook of Good Boys, Hollywood's latest odyssey of comic adolescent mischief, is that the kids behaving badly are, for once, truly kids. [2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:]
  • The song's hook snared me.
  • Guitarist Jade Puget and vocalist Davey Havok have distilled AFI’s strengths (a ferocious, post-hardcore rhythmic backbone; goth-tinctured, post-punky guitars; and Havok’s desperate, dramatic croon) into 14 taut, hook-driven songs. [2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2017:]
  • We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.
  • In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem. [2015, Rachel Alt-Simmons, Agile by Design, page 182:]
  • Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity. [2003, Andrew Fisher, David Webb, The Art of Scrabble, →ISBN, page 58:]
  • Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook ˇ (as in haček – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robić – Polish for ‘do/make’). [2003, Language Issues, XV-XVIII, page 36:]
  • In Czech, palatalization is normally indicated by the symbol ˇ, called haček or “hook.” [2003, David Adams, The Song and Duet Texts of Antonín Dvořák, page 168:]
  • 2004, Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii, page unknown
  • In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to Česko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.
  • He threw a hook in the dirt.
  • However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook. [1969, Harold Keith, Sports and Games, page 102:]
  • The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.
  • American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times. [2011 December 18, Ben Dirs, “Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2022:]
  • I was talkin' to a couple of the 'hooks' (female prostitutes) I know. [1983, G. W. Levi Kamel, Downtown Street Hustlers, page 160:]
  • He preceded me to Dartmoor, where I found his fame even more loudly trumpeted than ever, especially by Manchester “hooks” (pickpockets), who boast of being the rivals of the “Cocks,” or Londoners, in the art of obtaining other people's property without paying for it. [1885, Michael Davitt, Leaves from a Prison Diary, page 18:]
  • "Everybody's a tool over there. Everybody's a hook, except them four guys on the points of the compass. They are eight or ten strong over there." But all professional pickpockets, however expert or however clumsy, operate on the basis of the situation just outlined. [2003, David W. Maurer, Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern, page 58:]
  • This maneuver involves a sharp turn, back into the hook of the wave. [1963, Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, page 67:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Cognates
3. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'hoke', Old English Nouns 'hōc', Dutch Nouns 'hoek', German Nouns 'Hook', Faroese Nouns 'høkja', Icelandic Nouns 'hækja', Finnish Nouns 'kuokka'.

Verbs referencing "hook"

German Nouns Hecht, German Nouns Haken, Czech Nouns hák, Slovak Nouns hák, Russian Nouns хук, Finnish Nouns hukki.