hookern.1
/ˈhʊkə/, U.S. /ˈhʊkər/ One who or that which hooks.
1. A thief who snatched away articles with a hook; a pilferer, thief; (in modern use) slang a watch-stealer.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > who uses a hook
angler1567
hooker1567
curber1591
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > of watches
hooker1834
watchmaker1859
thimble-screwer1862
toy getter1879
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Biiiiv These hokers or Angglears be peryllous and most wicked knaues.
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. E3v The Courber, which the common people call the Hooker..with a Curbe..or hooke, do pull out of a windowe any loose linnen cloth, apparell, or else any other houshold stuffe.
1664 J. Worthington Life Mede in J. Mede Wks. p. lxxiii The Hooker..once began to draw away his Bed-cloaths whiles he lay awake.
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 339 No strange Abram, Ruffler crack..Hooker of another pack.
1888 Tit Bits 17 Nov. 82/2 (Farmer) The hooker, having..got a hold of the desired prize, detaches it from the chain by breaking the ring and passes it to number two.
2. One who fastens his clothes with hooks (see quot. 1880).
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mennonism > Mennonite sects and groups > [noun] > Amish
Amish1830
Plain people1859
Amishman1878
hooker1880
1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. IX. 700 The Amish Mennonites..are sometimes called Hookers, because they substitute hooks for buttons on their clothes.
3. hooker-on Coal Mining, a ‘hanger on’ or hitcher. Also simply hooker; and in many other technical usages.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc.
coal putter1708
foal1770
onsetter1789
putter1812
headsman1813
trapper1815
thruster1825
trammer1839
train boy1852
tram1856
hanger-on1858
tipper1861
hooker-on?1881
jiggerer?1881
hitcher1890
tub-loader1891
haulier1892
tilter1892
unhooker1892
flatter1894
jagger1900
thrutcher1901
tram-boy1904
filler1921
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 134/2 Hooker (to special trade when stated or determinable). Hooker (Undefined)..Factory Labourer.
1883 Times 9 Nov. These men found the fire-beater acting as hooker-on for the uninjured men, who were brought up with great rapidity.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 16 May 8/1 No one received injuries, the hookers having received warning by the clashing of the cage.
1919 Camp Worker (Vancouver) 26 Apr. 5/2 The best hooker that ever gave signals for the high-rigger, while his short-handed crew changed the haul-back without the assistance of a grass-line.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §043 Onsetter;..hooker, hooker-at-shaft..; stands at bottom of shaft in coal or shale mine to push full tubs on to cage and remove empty ones.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §943 Hooker, cloth hooker, piece hooker, hooker-and-lapper.
1966 H. Sheppard Dict. Railway Slang (ed. 2) 6 Hooker, shunter.
1967 Amer. Speech 42 291 Hookers come and attach hooks on slings from the overhead cranes, or travelers, that move over the yard transferring loads between saws and stacks.
4. A prostitute. slang (chiefly U.S.).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
meretrixOE
whoreOE
soiled dovea1250
common womanc1330
putec1384
bordel womanc1405
putaina1425
brothelc1450
harlot?a1475
public womanc1510
naughty pack?1529
draba1533
cat1535
strange woman1535
stew1552
causey-paikera1555
putanie?1566
drivelling1570
twigger1573
punka1575
hackney1579
customer1583
commodity1591
streetwalker1591
traffic1591
trug1591
hackster1592
polecat1593
stale1593
mermaid1595
medlar1597
occupant1598
Paphian1598
Winchester goose1598
pagan1600
hell-moth1602
aunt1604
moll1604
prostitution1605
community1606
miss1606
night-worm1606
bat1607
croshabell1607
prostitute1607
pug1607
venturer1607
nag1608
curtal1611
jumbler1611
land-frigate1611
walk-street1611
doll-common1612
turn-up1612
barber's chaira1616
commonera1616
public commonera1616
trader1615
venturea1616
stewpot1616
tweak1617
carry-knave1623
prostibule1623
fling-dusta1625
mar-taila1625
night-shadea1625
waistcoateera1625
night trader1630
coolera1632
meretrician1631
painted ladya1637
treadle1638
buttock1641
night-walker1648
mob?1650
lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651
lady of pleasure1652
trugmullion1654
fallen woman1659
girlc1662
high-flyer1663
fireship1665
quaedama1670
small girl1671
visor-mask1672
vizard-mask1672
bulker1673
marmalade-madam1674
town miss1675
town woman1675
lady of the night1677
mawks1677
fling-stink1679
Whetstone whore1684
man-leech1687
nocturnal1693
hack1699
strum1699
fille de joie1705
market-dame1706
screw1725
girl of (the) town1733
Cytherean1751
street girl1764
monnisher1765
lady of easy virtue1766
woman (also lady) of the town1766
kennel-nymph1771
chicken1782
stargazer1785
loose fish1809
receiver general1811
Cyprian1819
mollya1822
dolly-mop1834
hooker1845
charver1846
tail1846
horse-breaker1861
professional1862
flagger1865
cocodette1867
cocotte1867
queen's woman1871
common prostitute1875
joro1884
geisha1887
horizontal1888
flossy1893
moth1896
girl of the pavement1900
pross1902
prossie1902
pusher1902
split-arse mechanic1903
broad1914
shawl1922
bum1923
quiff1923
hustler1924
lady of the evening1924
prostie1926
working girl1928
prostisciutto1930
maggie1932
brass1934
brass nail1934
mud kicker1934
scupper1935
model1936
poule de luxe1937
pro1937
chromo1941
Tom1941
pan-pan1949
twopenny upright1958
scrubber1959
slack1959
yum-yum girl1960
Suzie Wong1962
mattress1964
jamette1965
ho1966
sex worker1971
pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
1845 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 277 If he comes by way of Norfolk he will find any number of pretty Hookers in the Brick row not far from French's hotel.
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 45 Hooker, a prostitute.
1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel (1930) xxx. 435 I hope you have sense enough now to leave those old hookers alone?
1932 J. Dos Passos 1919 43 Ain't you got the sense to tell a good girl from a hooker?
1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden xlv. 504 Joe could find any hooker in any town in a few hours.
1964 Esquire Nov. 85/2 They were attractive but not very imaginative, they looked like hookers on horses.
1971 W. Hanley Blue Dreams xix. 313 A high-class hooker couldn't be entirely without redeeming social value. Especially one who..taught English and hooked on the side.
5. A cow or ox that ‘hooks’ (see hook v. 11). U.S.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > (parts of) horn > animal(s) defined by horns > that attacks with horns
hooker1866
1866 Harper's Mag. May 816/1 He..asked ‘Why that pipe [sc. a hookah] was like a cow?’ having in mind the obvious answer that it was a hooker.
1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains ii. 48 The red cow jes' hooked down the bars, bein' a turrible hooker.
1902 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant vii. 84 You want to..distinguish between a cow that's a kicker, but whose intentions are good..and a hooker, who is vicious on general principles.
6.
a. Rugby. A player in the centre of the front row of the scrummage on either side who endeavours to obtain the ball by hooking it. Cf. hook v. 8e.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > types of player > player or position
full back1875
goal kick1875
No. eight1876
goalkicker1879
three-quarter back1880
handler1888
three-quarter1889
heeler1892
scrum half1894
lock forward1898
standoff1902
five-eighth1905
hooker1905
threes1905
flying half1906
loose head1907
standoff1908
fly-half1918
fly1921
inside half1921
outside half1921
scrum1921
inside centre1936
flank forward1937
out-half1949
prop1950
prop forward1951
number eight1952
flanker1953
tight head1959
back-rower1969
second rower1969
striker1973
packman1992
1905 Daily Chron. 13 Sept. 7/4 The two front men—called ‘hookers’—can get the ball just as well as three.
1906 D. Gallaher & W. J. Stead Compl. Rugby Footballer vii. 106 The side-row men press on the hookers, and the back-row men push against the lock.
1927 W. W. Wakefield & H. P. Marshall Rugger 166 Some hookers prefer to have the weight on the loose-head side.
1963 Times 14 Jan. 3/1 Thorne had been on the fringe of this new honour as a hooker for several years, and Davis and Owen look a sound second row.
1971 Times 15 Feb. 9/2 For a hooker Pullin often showed up well in the loose.
b. Cricket. A batter who uses the hook stroke.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > types of batsman
sticker1832
short runner1833
punisher1846
slogger1850
blocker1851
cutter1851
swiper1853
top scorer1860
stick1863
left-hander1864
smiter1878
centurion1886
driver1888
pad-player1888
poker1888
spectacle-maker1893
back-player1897
hooker1900
under-runner1903
puller1911
square cutter1920
straight driver1925
stroke-maker1927
goose-gamer1928
stroke-player1935
flasher1936
sweeper1961
tonker1977
1900 W. J. Ford Cricketer on Cricket 102 Like Hill he is a splendid hooker.
1911 P. F. Warner Bk. of Cricket xiii. 208 He has a lovely shot over extra-cover's head,..and on a slow wicket is a fine puller and hooker.
1972 Cricket World 1. 8/2 Keith [Stackpole] has long been regarded as only a puller, hooker and cutter but, last season, developed so much that he also drove strongly.
7. Golf. A ball which has been hooked.
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1908 Daily Chron. 23 May 9/2 The seventeenth tee shot is now played from a new tee, which is some distance to the right of the old one, thus bringing in the old bunker as a hazard to catch a hooker.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hookern.2
/ˈhʊkə/, U.S. /ˈhʊkər/ 1. A two-masted Dutch coasting or fishing vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > types of vessel with two masts > other two-masted vessels
dogger1338
hooker1641
dogger-boat1646
bilander1656
saic1667
grab1680
frigatoon1721
sandal1753
koff1794
sumack1805
quay punt1876
sinagot1927
1641 S. Smith True Narr. Royall Fishings 4 A Hooker or Wellboat.
1781 Westm. Mag. 9 555 There were also two large Hookers, which I could not conveniently bring away.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 237 Howker, a vessel of burthen with two masts (main and mizen) used by the Dutch and Northern nations.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Howker, a two-masted Dutch vessel.
2. A one-masted fishing smack on the Irish coast and south-west of England, similar to a hoy in build. Also attributive.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > other types of fishing vessel
spindlers-boat1243
manfare1326
stall boat1328
dogger1338
hackboat1344
coble1493
peter-boat1540
monger1558
trimboat1558
shotter1580
crab-skuit1614
fly-boat1614
cantera1642
dogger-boat1646
cag1666
yawl1670
barca-longa1681
hogboat1784
fishing-smack1785
hooker1801
hatch-boat1828
pinkie1840
fishing-bark1841
pookhaun1851
garookuh1855
jigger1860
fisher-bark1862
fisher-keel1870
Norwegian1872
scaf1877
mule coble1883
mule1884
Zulu1884
novy1885
tosher1885
skipjack1887
fleeter1888
fishing-float1893
rodney1895
mutton-ham boat1899
nobby1899
sinagot1927
sport fisherman1937
sport fisher1940
ski-boat1964
belly boat1976
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > single-masted vessels variously rigged
galliot-hoy1665
galliot pink1689
galliot1794
hooker1801
billyboy1855
jagt1861
pajala1937
1801 Naval Chron. 6 432 He was in a Cork hawker, which shipped a sea.
1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 84 The whole morning was spent on board Mr. Newenham's hooker.
1813 Q. Rev. July 289 The cost of one of these hookers is from £130 to £150;..the mode of fishing is by the hook and line.
1884 Western Morning News 28 July 1/4 Hookers belonging to the Port of Plymouth.
1894 Daily News 15 June 5/6 The number of hooker boats in Achill is very limited.
3. Applied depreciatively or fondly to a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun]
shipc725
beamOE
boardOE
bargea1300
steera1300
vessela1300
treea1382
loomc1400
man1473
ark1477
bottom1490
keela1547
riverboat1565
craft1578
pine1592
class1596
flood-bickerer1599
pitchboard1599
stern-bearer1599
wooden horse1599
wooden isle1603
water treader?1615
water house1616
watercraft1618
machine1637
prore1642
lightman1666
embarkation1690
bark1756
prowa1771
Mudian1813
bastiment1823
hooker1823
nymph1876
M.F.V.1948
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. iv. 57 Where away did 'ee ever fall in with such a hooker?
1825 Blackwood's Mag. 18 50/2 You've the easiest birth in the hooker.
1865 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 4/4 The voyage—fair or foul—has been made;..people shake hands with one another, giving the ‘old hooker’ a hearty cheer before they leave her.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hooker, or Howker... Also, Jack's name for his vessel, the favourite ‘old hooker’.
1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 945/1 The old hooker actually made two and a half knots, and answered her helm tolerably well.
Derivatives
ˈhookerman n.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on other types of craft
brigantiner1555
gondolier1603
collier1716
Greenlandman?1785
junkman1795
surfman1816
Whitehaller1824
gig1833
yawler1833
coracler1834
keel-boatman1839
square-rigger1855
surf boatman1856
skiffman1868
flatman1883
yawlsman1885
packet rat1887
hookerman1894
scooterist1919
launchman1924
sampan-wallah1932
tanker man1932
hydrocyclist-
1894 Daily News 15 June 5/6 The hookerman should have lowered her sail before jibing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† hookern.3
Obsolete.
(See quots.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > vessels
crossletc1386
testc1386
cruciblea1475
spoon1496
melting pot1545
cruset1558
fining pot1560
hooker1594
cupel1605
crusoile1613
crisol1622
melt pot1637
muffle1644
crevet1658
coffin1686
sand-pot1758
Hessian crucible1807
pan1839
shank1843
casting-pot1846
king pot1862
converter1867
washpot1879
1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 30 in Jewell House Great stone pottes..such as the Golde finers call their Hookers.
?1600 H. Plat Delightes for Ladies sig. A12 An earthen pot hauing a narrow mouth, and being wel leaded within, (the Refiners of gold and siluer, call these pots hookers).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
hookern.4
/ˈhʊkə/, U.S. /ˈhʊkər/ dialect and North American colloquial.
A glass of whisky, a dram; usually with qualifying word (e.g. stiff), a drink (of brandy, etc.).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > a drink of
dramc1590
sopie1687
short1823
something damp or shortc1831
hooker1833
jigger1836
snifter1844
short drink1883
snort1889
taggeen1899
shot1928
shorty1931
shooter1971
1833 J. Kennedy Geordie Chalmers iv. 45 Ye'll be nane the waur o' a hooker after yer fricht.
1865 W. H. L. Tester Poems 133 Sandy liket a hooker, an' brawlie I kent, The drap creatur' wad set him a speakin'.
1887 Grip (Toronto) 21 May 12/2 We went in and were served out with a pretty stiff hooker each.
1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 62 A stiff hooker of whiskey, and then another had the expected effect.
1927 Black Mask Feb. 37/1 It took a stiff hooker of whiskey and a lot of words to thaw her into understanding.
1930 H. Craddock Savoy Cocktail Bk. i. 97 The Juice of 1 Lemon. 4 Hookers Whiskey.
1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle xxvii. 268 She gave me such a hooker of brandy I went right to sleep.
1955 ‘T. P. Kelley’ Black Donnellys 63 Danny was quiet enough until he got about six hookers under his belt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Hookern.5
/ˈhʊkə/, U.S. /ˈhʊkər/ Hooker's green n. a bright green colour used in water-colour painting.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye > other pigments
vert1481
verditer1505
green bice1548
sap1572
sap-green1578
terre-verte1658
verditer1665
ultramarine blue (or colour)1686
emerald1712
Prussian green1738
Saxon green1753
verditel1778
Brunswick green1790
mountain green1822
Vienna green1825
bladder-green1830
Verona green1835
mitis green1839
Paris green1847
Hooker's green1860
Guignet's green1862
emerald green1879
silk green1880
viridian1882
Cassel green1885
Milori green1885
Victoria green1890
Montpellier green1930
cadmium green1934
guaco1936
Monastral1936
1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) at Green This method of imitating the mixture of ultramarine with yellow has grown into a system, but the colour is not durable: as in the cases of Hooker's green and Varley's green.
1886 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 24 52 His memory is associated by artists with the colour called after him, ‘Hooker's Green’.
1948 F. A. Staples Watercolour Painting i. 2 For paints get the following water colors in tubes: Alizarin Crimson,..Hooker's Green Dark.
1951 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (new ed.) ii. 51 Hooker's green, a mixture of Prussian blue and gamboge. Sold in two shades, yellowish and bluish.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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