释义 |
ingle-nook Orig. Sc. [f. ingle n.1] The nook or corner beside the ‘ingle’; chimney-corner.
a1774Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 6 (Jam.) The ingle-nook supplies the simmer fields. 1816Scott Old Mort. iv, I'll begin with that sulky blue-bonnet in the ingle-nook. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iii. i, There was a comfortable enough looking kitchen; but the ingle nook was full of smokers. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, ‘Old Feyther Taft’..had some time ago gone back to his ingle-nook. |